Perform a F-test for equal variances.
If the second argument y is a vector, a paired-t test of the
hypothesis mean (x) = mean (y) is performed.
The argument "alpha" can be used to specify the significance level
of the test (the default value is 0.05). The string
argument "tail", can be used to select the desired alternative
hypotheses. If "alt" is "both" (default) the null is
tested against the two-sided alternative mean (x) != m.
If "alt" is "right" the one-sided
alternative mean (x) > m is considered.
Similarly for "left", the one-sided alternative mean
(x) < m is considered. When "vartype" is "equal"
the variances are assumed to be equal (this is the default). When
"vartype" is "unequal" the variances are not assumed equal.
When argument x is a matrix the "dim" argument can be
used to selection the dimension over which to perform the test.
(The default is the first non-singleton dimension.)
If h is 0 the null hypothesis is accepted, if it is 1 the null hypothesis is rejected. The p-value of the test is returned in pval. A 100(1-alpha)% confidence interval is returned in ci. stats is a structure containing the value of the test statistic (tstat), the degrees of freedom (df) and the sample standard deviation (sd).
Package: statistics