Levene’s test

21 May, 2021
Levene’s test is used to assess the equality of variance between two different samples. For every case, it calculates the absolute difference between the value of that case and its cell mean and performs a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) on those differences
The samples from the populations under consideration are independent.
The populations under consideration are approximately normally distributed.
The null hypothesis for Levene’s test is that the variance among groups is equal.
The alternative hypothesis is that the variance among different groups is not equal (for at least one pair the variance is not equal to others).
The test statistics for Levene’s test is:
where,k: number of different groups to which the sampled cases belong.Ni: Number of elements in different groups.N: total number of cases in all groups
k: number of different groups to which the sampled cases belong.
Ni: Number of elements in different groups.
N: total number of cases in all groups
where,Yij: the value of jth case and ith group.
Yij: the value of jth case and ith group.
[Tex]Z_{..} = \frac{1}{N_i}\sum_{i=1}^{K}\sum_{j=1}^{N_i}Z_{ij} \, where \, Z_{ij} \,is \, the\, mean \, of \, all. [/Tex]
There are three types of Levene’s statistics availableIf a distribution has longer tailed distribution like the Cauchy distribution then we use trimmed mean.For skewed distribution, if the distribution is not clear we will use the median for test statistics.For the symmetric distribution and moderately tailed distribution, we use mean value for distribution.
If a distribution has longer tailed distribution like the Cauchy distribution then we use trimmed mean.
For skewed distribution, if the distribution is not clear we will use the median for test statistics.
For the symmetric distribution and moderately tailed distribution, we use mean value for distribution.
Decide the level of significance (alpha). Generally, we take it as 0.05.
Find the critical value in the F-distribution table for the given level of significance, (N-k) and (k-1) parameters.If W > F∝, k-1, N-k, then we reject the null hypothesis.else, we do not reject the null hypothesis.
If W > F∝, k-1, N-k, then we reject the null hypothesis.
else, we do not reject the null hypothesis.
Suppose there are 2 groups of students containing their scores in a maths test are below:
Here, our null hypothesis is defined as:
and the alternate hypothesis is
And our level of significance is:
Now, calculate the test statistics using above formula
where, meanVar is ,
and k-1 = Num of groups -1 =1
N-k = 20-2 =18.
By solving the test statistics using following parameters
[Tex]W = 0.54481[/Tex]
Since, W < F0.05,1,19 , hence we do not reject the null hypothesis.
Python3
from scipy.stats import levene# define groupsgroup_1 = [14, 34, 16, 43, 45, 36, 42, 43, 16, 27]group_2 = [34, 36, 44, 18, 42, 39, 16, 35, 15, 33] # define alphaalpha =0.05# now we pass the groups and center value from the following# ('trimmed mean', 'mean', 'median')w_stats, p_value =levene(group_1,group_2, center ='mean') if p_value > alpha :  print("We do not reject the null hypothesis")else:  print("Reject the Null Hypothesis")
We do not reject the null hypothesis
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