Details
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Bug
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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2.0
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Description
Similar to the issue described in MATH-201, using PearsonsCorrelation.getCorrelationPValues() with many treatments results in p-values that are continuous down to 2.2e-16 but that drop to 0 after that.
In MATH-201, the problem was described as such:
> So in essence, the p-value returned by TTestImpl.tTest() is:
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> 1.0 - (cumulativeProbability(t) - cumulativeProbabily(-t))
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> For large-ish t-statistics, cumulativeProbabilty(-t) can get quite small, and cumulativeProbabilty(t) can get very close to 1.0. When
> cumulativeProbability(-t) is less than the machine epsilon, we get p-values equal to zero because:
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> 1.0 - 1.0 + 0.0 = 0.0
The solution in MATH-201 was to modify the p-value calculation to this:
> p = 2.0 * cumulativeProbability(-t)
Here, the problem is similar. From PearsonsCorrelation.getCorrelationPValues():
p = 2 * (1 - tDistribution.cumulativeProbability(t));
Directly calculating the p-value using identical code as PearsonsCorrelation.getCorrelationPValues(), but with the following change seems to solve the problem:
p = 2 * (tDistribution.cumulativeProbability(-t));