R-alpha: new class for chisquare tests?

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Kurt Hornik <hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> 
> I sort of asked this before, but perhaps not explicitly enough.
> 
> In my ctest collection, there are several chisquare-based tests.  For
> some of them, it may be useful to also return information on expected
> (and observed) counts.  The question is, how should this be done.  Of
> course, there is no problem adding the corresponding components to the
> list returned by the functions.  However, as these are of class `htest',
> the components don't show up in the printed output.
> 
> (Of course, one can easily obtain them if they are in the list, but I
> think Peter is with me when I say that this is not the right thing in an
> intro course.)
> 
> * Should we extend print.htest() to display info on expected and
> observed counts in case it is there?
> 
> * (Should we have an extra argument to control this behavior?)
> 
> * Or should there be a class "chisqtest" with a slightly different print
> and perhaps also summary method?
> 
> * Or ...?

Couldn't the basic logic of print.lm/summary.lm/anova.lm be applied
here too? I.e.

h<-chisquare.test(blipblop)
observed(h)
fitted(h)
partials(h)

This might be implemented simply by adding items to the return list,
and have fitted.htest() extract the relevant item if it is there.

Or maybe slightly safer from a name-space point of view: add *one*
extra item ("comp", say) which is a list containing the other stuff.

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