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NAME

Text::NSP::Measures::2D::Fisher::left - Perl module implementation of the left sided Fisher's exact test.

SYNOPSIS

Basic Usage

use Text::NSP::Measures::2D::Fisher::left;

my $npp = 60; my $n1p = 20; my $np1 = 20;  my $n11 = 10;

$left_value = calculateStatistic( n11=>$n11,
                                    n1p=>$n1p,
                                    np1=>$np1,
                                    npp=>$npp);

if( ($errorCode = getErrorCode()))
{
  print STDERR $errorCode." - ".getErrorMessage();
}
else
{
  print getStatisticName."value for bigram is ".$left_value;
}

DESCRIPTION

Assume that the frequency count data associated with a bigram <word1><word2> is stored in a 2x2 contingency table:

         word2   ~word2
 word1    n11      n12 | n1p
~word1    n21      n22 | n2p
          --------------
          np1      np2   npp

where n11 is the number of times <word1><word2> occur together, and n12 is the number of times <word1> occurs with some word other than word2, and n1p is the number of times in total that word1 occurs as the first word in a bigram.

The fishers exact tests are calculated by fixing the marginal totals and computing the hypergeometric probabilities for all the possible contingency tables,

A left sided test is calculated by adding the probabilities of all the possible two by two contingency tables formed by fixing the marginal totals and changing the value of n11 to less than the given value. A left sided Fisher's Exact Test tells us how likely it is to randomly sample a table where n11 is less than observed. In other words, it tells us how likely it is to sample an observation where the two words are less dependent than currently observed.

Methods

calculateStatistic() - This method computes the left sided Fishers exact test.

INPUT PARAMS : $count_values .. Reference of an array containing the count values computed by the count.pl program.

RETURN VALUES : $left .. Left Fisher value.

getStatisticName()

Returns the name of this statistic

INPUT PARAMS : none

RETURN VALUES : $name .. Name of the measure.

AUTHOR

Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota Duluth <tpederse@d.umn.edu>

Satanjeev Banerjee, Carnegie Mellon University <satanjeev@cmu.edu>

Amruta Purandare, University of Pittsburgh <amruta@cs.pitt.edu>

Bridget Thomson-McInnes, University of Minnesota Twin Cities <bthompson@d.umn.edu>

Saiyam Kohli, University of Minnesota Duluth <kohli003@d.umn.edu>

HISTORY

Last updated: $Id: left.pm,v 1.12 2006/06/21 11:10:52 saiyam_kohli Exp $

BUGS

SEE ALSO

@inproceedings{Pedersen96,
        author = {Pedersen, T.},
        title = {Fishing For Exactness},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the South Central SAS User's
                    Group (SCSUG-96) Conference},
        year = {1996},
        pages = {188--200},
        month ={October},
        address = {Austin, TX}
        url = L<http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse/pubs.html>}

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ngram/

http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse/nsp.html

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2000-2006, Ted Pedersen, Satanjeev Banerjee, Amruta Purandare, Bridget Thomson-McInnes and Saiyam Kohli

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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The Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
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Note: a copy of the GNU General Public License is available on the web at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt and is included in this distribution as GPL.txt.