Type: Package
Package: visStatistics
Title: Automated Selection and Visualisation of Statistical Hypothesis
        Tests
Version: 0.3.0
Authors@R: c(
    person("Sabine", "Schilling", , "sabineschilling@gmx.ch", role = c("cre", "aut", "cph"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-8318-9421", year = "2026")),
    person("Peter", "Kauf", , "peter.kauf@zhaw.ch", role = "ctb")
  )
Author: Sabine Schilling [cre, aut, cph] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8318-9421>, year: 2026),
  Peter Kauf [ctb]
Maintainer: Sabine Schilling <sabineschilling@gmx.ch>
Description: Automated test selection, visualised. 'visStatistics'
    automatically selects and visualises statistical hypothesis tests
    comparing two vectors, based on their class and distribution. Visual 
    outputs, including box plots, bar charts, regression
    lines with confidence bands, mosaic plots, residual plots, and Q-Q
    plots, are annotated with relevant test statistics, assumption checks,
    and post-hoc analyses where applicable.  The algorithmic workflow
    shifts attention from ad-hoc test selection to visual diagnostic
    assessment and statistical interpretation. It is particularly suited
    for server-side R applications, where end users interact solely
    through a web interface to select data groups and receive a complete
    visual statistical analysis automatically. The same automation makes
    it useful in time-constrained contexts such as statistical consulting,
    where it reduces effort spent on test selection and leaves more room
    for interpretation.  The implemented tests cover the most frequently
    applied inferential methods in biomedical research (Hayat et al.
    (2017) <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0179032>).  The test selection
    algorithm proceeds as follows: Input vectors of class numeric or
    integer are considered numerical; those of class factor are considered
    categorical; those of class ordered are considered ordinal.
    Assumptions of residual normality and homogeneity of variances are
    considered met if the corresponding test yields a p-value greater than
    the significance level alpha = 1 - conf.level.  (1) When the response
    is numerical and the predictor is categorical, a test comparing
    central tendencies is selected. In the default setting (group_test =
    NULL), residual normality is assessed at every group size using
    shapiro.test() applied to the standardised residuals of lm(). If
    normality is not met, wilcox.test() is used when the predictor has two
    levels and kruskal.test() followed by pairwise.wilcox.test()
    otherwise. If normality is met, levene.test() assesses variance
    homogeneity. For two-level predictors, Student's t.test(var.equal =
    TRUE) is applied if variances are homogeneous and Welch's t.test()
    otherwise. For predictors with more than two levels, aov() followed by
    TukeyHSD() is applied if variances are homogeneous, and oneway.test()
    followed by games.howell() otherwise. Setting group_test to "welch" or
    "rank" bypasses these assumption tests and fixes the analysis to
    Welch-type or to rank-based tests, respectively.
    (2) When both vectors are numerical, lm() is fitted by
    default (correlation = FALSE). If correlation = TRUE, Spearman rank
    correlation is performed.  (3) When the response is ordinal, it is
    converted to numeric ranks and the non-parametric path from (1) is
    followed (Wilcoxon or Kruskal-Wallis). When both variables are
    ordinal and correlation = TRUE, Kendall's tau_b is used instead.  (4)
    When both vectors are categorical, Cochran's rule (Cochran (1954)
    <doi:10.2307/3001666>) is applied to test independence either by
    chisq.test() or fisher.test().
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/shhschilling/visStatistics,
        https://shhschilling.github.io/visStatistics/
BugReports: https://github.com/shhschilling/visStatistics/issues
Imports: Cairo, graphics, grDevices, grid, multcompView, nortest,
        stats, tools, utils, vcd
Suggests: bookdown, knitr, rmarkdown, spelling, testthat (>= 3.0.0)
VignetteBuilder: knitr
BuildVignettes: true
Config/roxygen2/version: 8.0.0
Config/testthat/edition: 3
Encoding: UTF-8
Language: en-GB
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-07-27 21:27:17 UTC; sschilli
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-07-27 21:50:02 UTC
Built: R 4.6.1; ; 2026-07-27 23:55:23 UTC; unix
