[SciPy-Dev] Name for Page's L test

rlucas7 at vt.edu rlucas7 at vt.edu
Wed Jan 6 09:08:57 EST 2021



> On Jan 5, 2021, at 7:41 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 6:04 PM <rlucas7 at vt.edu> wrote:
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>> IIUC this is a test of monotonicity, that is what is implied w/the colloquial expression “trending upward”, so I’m confused as to why this isn’t a trend. 
>> 
>> Perhaps the author has conflated the more specific “Linear trend”?
> 
> I think the point they are making is that the null hypothesis gets rejected for even a single treatment being (consistently) lower than the following one. Whereas one might expect a "trend" to span across the whole (or substantial part of) the treatment space.
> I'm afraid I don't care enough about this area of statistics to dive any deeper.
> 
> I don't really mind one way or the other. I'd rather name it something that helps people find it even if some experts may quibble about the strict accuracy of the name. Some combination of `page` and `trend` seems to me to be better than just `page` or `pagel`.
> 

I concur.

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