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def ttest_ind(a, b, *, axis=0, equal_var=True, nan_policy='propagate', permutations=None, random_state=None, alternative='two-sided', trim=0, method=None, keepdims=False)
Calculate the T-test for the means of *two independent* samples of scores.
This is a test for the null hypothesis that 2 independent samples
have identical average (expected) values. This test assumes that the
populations have identical variances by default.
.. deprecated:: 1.17.0
Use of argument(s) ``{'equal_var', 'axis', 'keepdims', 'nan_policy', 'alternative', 'trim', 'method'}`` by position is deprecated; beginning in
SciPy 1.17.0, these will be keyword-only. Argument(s) ``{'random_state', 'permutations'}`` are deprecated, whether passed by position or keyword; they will be removed in SciPy 1.17.0. Use ``method`` to perform a permutation test.
Parameters
----------
a, b : array_like
The arrays must have the same shape, except in the dimension
corresponding to `axis` (the first, by default).
axis : int or None, default: 0
If an int, the axis of the input along which to compute the statistic.
The statistic of each axis-slice (e.g. row) of the input will appear in a
corresponding element of the output.
If ``None``, the input will be raveled before computing the statistic.
equal_var : bool, optional
If True (default), perform a standard independent 2 sample test
that assumes equal population variances [1]_.
If False, perform Welch's t-test, which does not assume equal
population variance [2]_.
.. versionadded:: 0.11.0
nan_policy : {'propagate', 'omit', 'raise'}
Defines how to handle input NaNs.
- ``propagate``: if a NaN is present in the axis slice (e.g. row) along
which the statistic is computed, the corresponding entry of the output
will be NaN.
- ``omit``: NaNs will be omitted when performing the calculation.
If insufficient data remains in the axis slice along which the
statistic is computed, the corresponding entry of the output will be
NaN.
- ``raise``: if a NaN is present, a ``ValueError`` will be raised.
permutations : non-negative int, np.inf, or None (default), optional
If 0 or None (default), use the t-distribution to calculate p-values.
Otherwise, `permutations` is the number of random permutations that
will be used to estimate p-values using a permutation test. If
`permutations` equals or exceeds the number of distinct partitions of
the pooled data, an exact test is performed instead (i.e. each
distinct partition is used exactly once). See Notes for details.
.. deprecated:: 1.17.0
`permutations` is deprecated and will be removed in SciPy 1.7.0.
Use the `n_resamples` argument of `PermutationMethod`, instead,
and pass the instance as the `method` argument.
random_state : {None, int, `numpy.random.Generator`,
`numpy.random.RandomState`}, optional
If `seed` is None (or `np.random`), the `numpy.random.RandomState`
singleton is used.
If `seed` is an int, a new ``RandomState`` instance is used,
seeded with `seed`.
If `seed` is already a ``Generator`` or ``RandomState`` instance then
that instance is used.
Pseudorandom number generator state used to generate permutations
(used only when `permutations` is not None).
.. deprecated:: 1.17.0
`random_state` is deprecated and will be removed in SciPy 1.7.0.
Use the `rng` argument of `PermutationMethod`, instead,
and pass the instance as the `method` argument.
alternative : {'two-sided', 'less', 'greater'}, optional
Defines the alternative hypothesis.
The following options are available (default is 'two-sided'):
* 'two-sided': the means of the distributions underlying the samples
are unequal.
* 'less': the mean of the distribution underlying the first sample
is less than the mean of the distribution underlying the second
sample.
* 'greater': the mean of the distribution underlying the first
sample is greater than the mean of the distribution underlying
the second sample.
trim : float, optional
If nonzero, performs a trimmed (Yuen's) t-test.
Defines the fraction of elements to be trimmed from each end of the
input samples. If 0 (default), no elements will be trimmed from either
side. The number of trimmed elements from each tail is the floor of the
trim times the number of elements. Valid range is [0, .5).
method : ResamplingMethod, optional
Defines the method used to compute the p-value. If `method` is an
instance of `PermutationMethod`/`MonteCarloMethod`, the p-value is
computed using
`scipy.stats.permutation_test`/`scipy.stats.monte_carlo_test` with the
provided configuration options and other appropriate settings.
Otherwise, the p-value is computed by comparing the test statistic
against a theoretical t-distribution.
.. versionadded:: 1.15.0
keepdims : bool, default: False
If this is set to True, the axes which are reduced are left
in the result as dimensions with size one. With this option,
the result will broadcast correctly against the input array.
Returns
-------
result : `~scipy.stats._result_classes.TtestResult`
An object with the following attributes:
statistic : float or ndarray
The t-statistic.
pvalue : float or ndarray
The p-value associated with the given alternative.
df : float or ndarray
The number of degrees of freedom used in calculation of the
t-statistic. This is always NaN for a permutation t-test.
.. versionadded:: 1.11.0
The object also has the following method:
confidence_interval(confidence_level=0.95)
Computes a confidence interval around the difference in
population means for the given confidence level.
The confidence interval is returned in a ``namedtuple`` with
fields ``low`` and ``high``.
When a permutation t-test is performed, the confidence interval
is not computed, and fields ``low`` and ``high`` contain NaN.
.. versionadded:: 1.11.0
Notes
-----
Suppose we observe two independent samples, e.g. flower petal lengths, and
we are considering whether the two samples were drawn from the same
population (e.g. the same species of flower or two species with similar
petal characteristics) or two different populations.
The t-test quantifies the difference between the arithmetic means
of the two samples. The p-value quantifies the probability of observing
as or more extreme values assuming the null hypothesis, that the
samples are drawn from populations with the same population means, is true.
A p-value larger than a chosen threshold (e.g. 5% or 1%) indicates that
our observation is not so unlikely to have occurred by chance. Therefore,
we do not reject the null hypothesis of equal population means.
If the p-value is smaller than our threshold, then we have evidence
against the null hypothesis of equal population means.
By default, the p-value is determined by comparing the t-statistic of the
observed data against a theoretical t-distribution.
(In the following, note that the argument `permutations` itself is
deprecated, but a nearly identical test may be performed by creating
an instance of `scipy.stats.PermutationMethod` with ``n_resamples=permutuations``
and passing it as the `method` argument.)
When ``1 < permutations < binom(n, k)``, where
* ``k`` is the number of observations in `a`,
* ``n`` is the total number of observations in `a` and `b`, and
* ``binom(n, k)`` is the binomial coefficient (``n`` choose ``k``),
the data are pooled (concatenated), randomly assigned to either group `a`
or `b`, and the t-statistic is calculated. This process is performed
repeatedly (`permutation` times), generating a distribution of the
t-statistic under the null hypothesis, and the t-statistic of the observed
data is compared to this distribution to determine the p-value.
Specifically, the p-value reported is the "achieved significance level"
(ASL) as defined in 4.4 of [3]_. Note that there are other ways of
estimating p-values using randomized permutation tests; for other
options, see the more general `permutation_test`.
When ``permutations >= binom(n, k)``, an exact test is performed: the data
are partitioned between the groups in each distinct way exactly once.
The permutation test can be computationally expensive and not necessarily
more accurate than the analytical test, but it does not make strong
assumptions about the shape of the underlying distribution.
Use of trimming is commonly referred to as the trimmed t-test. At times
called Yuen's t-test, this is an extension of Welch's t-test, with the
difference being the use of winsorized means in calculation of the variance
and the trimmed sample size in calculation of the statistic. Trimming is
recommended if the underlying distribution is long-tailed or contaminated
with outliers [4]_.
The statistic is calculated as ``(np.mean(a) - np.mean(b))/se``, where
``se`` is the standard error. Therefore, the statistic will be positive
when the sample mean of `a` is greater than the sample mean of `b` and
negative when the sample mean of `a` is less than the sample mean of
`b`.
Beginning in SciPy 1.9, ``np.matrix`` inputs (not recommended for new
code) are converted to ``np.ndarray`` before the calculation is performed. In
this case, the output will be a scalar or ``np.ndarray`` of appropriate shape
rather than a 2D ``np.matrix``. Similarly, while masked elements of masked
arrays are ignored, the output will be a scalar or ``np.ndarray`` rather than a
masked array with ``mask=False``.
References
----------
.. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-test#Independent_two-sample_t-test
.. [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welch%27s_t-test
.. [3] B. Efron and T. Hastie. Computer Age Statistical Inference. (2016).
.. [4] Yuen, Karen K. "The Two-Sample Trimmed t for Unequal Population
Variances." Biometrika, vol. 61, no. 1, 1974, pp. 165-170. JSTOR,
www.jstor.org/stable/2334299. Accessed 30 Mar. 2021.
.. [5] Yuen, Karen K., and W. J. Dixon. "The Approximate Behaviour and
Performance of the Two-Sample Trimmed t." Biometrika, vol. 60,
no. 2, 1973, pp. 369-374. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2334550.
Accessed 30 Mar. 2021.
Examples
--------
>>> import numpy as np
>>> from scipy import stats
>>> rng = np.random.default_rng()
Test with sample with identical means:
>>> rvs1 = stats.norm.rvs(loc=5, scale=10, size=500, random_state=rng)
>>> rvs2 = stats.norm.rvs(loc=5, scale=10, size=500, random_state=rng)
>>> stats.ttest_ind(rvs1, rvs2)
TtestResult(statistic=-0.4390847099199348,
pvalue=0.6606952038870015,
df=998.0)
>>> stats.ttest_ind(rvs1, rvs2, equal_var=False)
TtestResult(statistic=-0.4390847099199348,
pvalue=0.6606952553131064,
df=997.4602304121448)
`ttest_ind` underestimates p for unequal variances:
>>> rvs3 = stats.norm.rvs(loc=5, scale=20, size=500, random_state=rng)
>>> stats.ttest_ind(rvs1, rvs3)
TtestResult(statistic=-1.6370984482905417,
pvalue=0.1019251574705033,
df=998.0)
>>> stats.ttest_ind(rvs1, rvs3, equal_var=False)
TtestResult(statistic=-1.637098448290542,
pvalue=0.10202110497954867,
df=765.1098655246868)
When ``n1 != n2``, the equal variance t-statistic is no longer equal to the
unequal variance t-statistic:
>>> rvs4 = stats.norm.rvs(loc=5, scale=20, size=100, random_state=rng)
>>> stats.ttest_ind(rvs1, rvs4)
TtestResult(statistic=-1.9481646859513422,
pvalue=0.05186270935842703,
df=598.0)
>>> stats.ttest_ind(rvs1, rvs4, equal_var=False)
TtestResult(statistic=-1.3146566100751664,
pvalue=0.1913495266513811,
df=110.41349083985212)
T-test with different means, variance, and n:
>>> rvs5 = stats.norm.rvs(loc=8, scale=20, size=100, random_state=rng)
>>> stats.ttest_ind(rvs1, rvs5)
TtestResult(statistic=-2.8415950600298774,
pvalue=0.0046418707568707885,
df=598.0)
>>> stats.ttest_ind(rvs1, rvs5, equal_var=False)
TtestResult(statistic=-1.8686598649188084,
pvalue=0.06434714193919686,
df=109.32167496550137)
Take these two samples, one of which has an extreme tail.
>>> a = (56, 128.6, 12, 123.8, 64.34, 78, 763.3)
>>> b = (1.1, 2.9, 4.2)
Use the `trim` keyword to perform a trimmed (Yuen) t-test. For example,
using 20% trimming, ``trim=.2``, the test will reduce the impact of one
(``np.floor(trim*len(a))``) element from each tail of sample `a`. It will
have no effect on sample `b` because ``np.floor(trim*len(b))`` is 0.
>>> stats.ttest_ind(a, b, trim=.2)
TtestResult(statistic=3.4463884028073513,
pvalue=0.01369338726499547,
df=6.0)
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