=head1 NAME Text::NSP::Measures::2D::Fisher - Perl module that provides methods to compute the Fishers exact tests. =head1 SYNOPSIS =head3 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; } =head1 DESCRIPTION Assume that the frequency count data associated with a bigram 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 occur together, and n12 is the number of times 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. A right 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 greater than or equal to the given value. A right sided Fisher's Exact Test tells us how likely it is to randomly sample a table where n11 is greater than observed. In other words, it tells us how likely it is to sample an observation where the two words are more dependent than currently observed. A two-tailed fishers test is calculated by adding the probabilities of all the contingency tables with probabilities less than the probability of the observed table. The two-tailed fishers test tells us how likely it would be to observe an contingency table which is less probable than the current table. =head2 Methods =over =cut package Text::NSP::Measures::2D::Fisher; use Text::NSP::Measures::2D; use strict; use Carp; use warnings; # use subs(calculateStatistic); require Exporter; our ($VERSION, @EXPORT, @ISA); @ISA = qw(Exporter); @EXPORT = qw(initializeStatistic calculateStatistic getErrorCode getErrorMessage getStatisticName $n11 $n12 $n21 $n22 $m11 $m12 $m21 $m22 $npp $np1 $np2 $n2p $n1p $errorCodeNumber $errorMessage); $VERSION = '0.97'; =item getValues() -This method calls the computeObservedValues() and the computeExpectedValues() methods to compute the observed and marginal total values. It checks these values for any errors that might cause the Fishers Exact test measures to fail. INPUT PARAMS : $count_values .. Reference of an array containing the count values computed by the count.pl program. RETURN VALUES : 1/undef ..returns '1' to indicate success and an undefined(NULL) value to indicate failure. =cut sub getValues { my $values = shift; # computes and returns the marginal totals from the frequency # combination values. returns undef if there is an error in # the computation or the values are inconsistent. if(!(Text::NSP::Measures::2D::computeMarginalTotals($values)) ){ return; } # computes and returns the observed and marginal values from # the frequency combination values. returns 0 if there is an # error in the computation or the values are inconsistent. if( !(Text::NSP::Measures::2D::computeObservedValues($values)) ) { return; } return 1; } =item computeDistribution() - This method calculates the probabilities for all the possible tables INPUT PARAMS : $n11_start .. the value for the cell 1,1 in the first contingency table $final_limit .. the value of cell 1,1 in the last contingency table for which we have to compute the probability. RETURN VALUES : $probability .. Reference to a hash containing hypergeometric probabilities for all the possible contingency tables =cut sub computeDistribution { my $n11_start = shift @_; my $final_limit = shift @_; # first sort the numerator array in the descending order. my @numerator = sort { $b <=> $a } ($n1p, $np1, $n2p, $np2); # initialize the hash to store the probability distribution values. my %probability = (); # declare some temporary variables for use in loops and computing the values. my $i; my $j=0; # initialize the product variable to be used in the probability computation. my $product = 0; # set the values for the first contingency table. $n11 = $n11_start; $n12 = $n1p-$n11; $n21 = $np1-$n11; $n22 = $n2p - $n21; while($n22 < 0) { $n11++; $n12 = $n1p - $n11; $n21 = $np1 - $n11; $n22 = $n2p - $n21; } # declare the denominator array. my @denominator = (); $product = 0; my $prob = 0; $i = $n11; $n12 = $n1p - $i; $n21 = $np1 - $i; $n22 = $n2p - $n21; # initialize the denominator array with values sorted in the descending order. @denominator = sort { $b <=> $a } ($npp, $n22, $n12, $n21, $i); #decalare other variables for use in computation. my @dLimits = (); my @nLimits = (); my $dIndex = 0; my $nIndex = 0; # set the dLimits and nLimits arrays to be used in the cancellation of factorials # and to be used in the computation of factorial. # the dLimits and the nLimits allow us to cancel out factorials in the numerator # and the denominator. for example: # 6! 1*2*3*4*5*6 # --- = --------------- = 5*6 # 4! 1*2*3*4 # # we achieve this by defining a range within which all the # nos must be multiplied. So every pair of entries in the nLimits array defines a range # so for the above case the entries would be: # 5,6 # for ( $j = 0; $j < 4; $j++ ) { if ( $numerator[$j] > $denominator[$j] ) { $nLimits[$nIndex] = $denominator[$j] + 1; $nLimits[$nIndex+1] = $numerator[$j]; $nIndex += 2; } elsif ( $denominator[$j] > $numerator[$j] ) { $dLimits[$dIndex] = $numerator[$j] + 1; $dLimits[$dIndex+1] = $denominator[$j]; $dIndex += 2; } } $dLimits[$dIndex] = 1; $dLimits[$dIndex+1] = $denominator[4]; # since, all the variables have been initialized, we start the computations. $product = computeHyperGeometric(\@dLimits, \@nLimits); $probability{$i} = $product; $prob = $probability{$i}; # to reduce the no. of computations and the make the measure more efficient # we use the previous tables probabilities to compute the new tables probabilities # we can do this because the counts in the table will change by only a factor of 1 # thus instead of repeating all those multiplications we have to perform only # 4 multiplications. my $subproduct = 0; for ($i = $n11+1; $i <= $final_limit; $i++ ) { $subproduct += log $n12; $n22++; $subproduct -= log $n22; $subproduct += log $n21; $n12--; $n21--; $subproduct -= log $i; $probability{$i} = $product+$subproduct; if($probability{$i} != 0) { $product = $product+$subproduct; $subproduct=0; } } return (\%probability); } sub computeHyperGeometric { my $dLimits = shift @_; my $nLimits = shift @_; my $product = 0; # compute the probability now, since all the variables have been initialized. while ( defined ( $nLimits->[0] ) ) { while ( defined ( $nLimits->[0] ) ) { $product += log $nLimits->[0]; $nLimits->[0]++; if ( $nLimits->[0] > $nLimits->[1] ) { shift @{$nLimits}; shift @{$nLimits}; } } while ( defined ( $dLimits->[0] ) ) { $product -= log $dLimits->[0]; $dLimits->[0]++; if ( $dLimits->[0] > $dLimits->[1] ) { shift @{$dLimits}; shift @{$dLimits}; } } } return $product; } 1; __END__ =back =head1 AUTHOR Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota Duluth Etpederse@d.umn.eduE Satanjeev Banerjee, Carnegie Mellon University Esatanjeev@cmu.eduE Amruta Purandare, University of Pittsburgh Eamruta@cs.pitt.eduE Bridget Thomson-McInnes, University of Minnesota Twin Cities Ebthompson@d.umn.eduE Saiyam Kohli, University of Minnesota Duluth Ekohli003@d.umn.eduE =head1 HISTORY Last updated: $Id: Fisher.pm,v 1.21 2008/03/26 17:18:26 tpederse Exp $ =head1 BUGS =head1 SEE ALSO L L =head1 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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