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Test Value


This is a statistical measure which T-LAB uses to characterise two kinds of relationships:

a) those concerning lexical units with variable categories, the occurrences of which are summarized in contingency tables;
b) those concerning any row and column of a contingency table with the factors detected by a correspondence analysis of such a table.

Depending on the relationships analysed, the formulas of the test value, taken from one of the bibliography volumes (Lebart L. Morineau A. Piron M. , 1995, pp. 181-184), are the following:

a)

where 'njk' indicates the occurrences within a cell, while 'nj' and 'nk' correspond respectively to the marginal total of a row and of a column.

b)

where "nj" and " j" indicate respectively the occurrences of the j-th object and its coordinate on the -th factorial axis.

The test value has two significant properties: a threshold value (1.96), corresponding to the statistical significance most commonly used (p. 0.05), and a sign (-/+).

This means that, after sorting the values in an ascending or descending order, it is possible to quickly single out the relevance of each analysed item.

T-LAB allows a Test Value table consultation in an interactive way.