CALL SEQUENCE... critt TC INPUT OUTPUT [-a VAL1 -b VAL2 -c VAL3] DESCRIPTION... critt - COMPUTES THE CRITICAL VALUE FOR THE STUDENT-T TEST AUTHOR - M.Lazare, November 16 1982. LAST REVISION: $Header: /home/cvs/RMNLIB/utils/rdiag/lspgm/critt.ptn,v 4.3 2014/09/25 20:20:46 dugas Exp $ PURPOSE - COMPUTES THE CRITICAL VALUE OF THE STANDARD SIGNIFICANCE (STUDENT-T) TEST FOR 2 POOLED DATA SETS, FOR A GIVEN LEVEL OF THE TEST , AND FOR CERTAIN SAMPLE SIZES OF CONTROL AND EXPERIMENT. OUTPUT FILE... TC = CARD IMAGE FILE OF CRITICAL VALUE IN THE PROPER FORMAT TO BE READ BY THE PROGRAM XLIN. INPUT PARAMETERS... ALFA (a) = SIGNIFICANCE LEVEL (THE SUPPORTED VALUES ARE .01, .05 AND .10, WHICH CORRESPOND RESPECTIVELY TO 99%, 95% AND 90% CONFIDENCE LEVELS) RM (b) = SAMPLE SIZE OF THE EXPERIMENT RN (c) = SAMPLE SIZE OF THE CONTROL RUN NOTES: 1) IF THE NUMBER OF DEGREES OF FREEDOM (DF = RM+RN-2) IS .LE. 30, EXACT CRITICAL VALUES ARE PROVIDED. 2) FOR DF IN THE... ]30, 40] RANGE, CRITICAL VALUES FOR 40 ARE GIVEN; ]40, 60] RANGE, CRITICAL VALUES FOR 60 ARE GIVEN; ]60,120] RANGE, CRITICAL VALUES FOR 120 ARE GIVEN; 3) FOR DF VALUES GREATER THAN 120, THE ASYMPTOTIC CRITICAL VALUES AT INFINITY ARE GIVEN. READ(5,5000) ALFA,RM,RN 5000 FORMAT(10X,3E10.0) EXAMPLE OF INPUT CARD... *CRITT 0.05 1. 5. 0123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 EXIT CONDITIONS... 0 NO PROBLEMS 1 UNSUPPORTED VALUES OF ALFA 2 RM+RN-2 SMALLER THAN 1 3 ERRORS WHILE READING PARAMETRES