Usage 1: cdf [-v] -t2p statname t params
Usage 2: cdf [-v] -p2t statname p params
Usage 3: cdf [-v] -t2z statname t params
This program does various conversions using the cumulative distribution
function (cdf) of certain canonical probability functions. The optional
'-v' indicates to be verbose -- this is for debugging purposes, mostly.
Use this option if you get results you don't understand!
Usage 1: Converts a statistic 't' to a tail probability.
Usage 2: Converts a tail probability 'p' to a statistic.
Usage 3: Converts a statistic 't' to a N(0,1) value (or z-score)
that has the same tail probability.
The parameter 'statname' refers to the type of distribution to be used.
The numbers in the params list are the auxiliary parameters for the
particular distribution. The following table shows the available
distribution functions and their parameters:
statname Description PARAMETERS
-------- ----------- ----------------------------------------
fico Cor SAMPLES FIT-PARAMETERS ORT-PARAMETERS
fitt Ttest DEGREES-of-FREEDOM
fift Ftest NUMERATOR and DENOMINATOR DEGREES-of-FREEDOM
fizt Ztest N/A
fict ChiSq DEGREES-of-FREEDOM
fibt Beta A (numerator) and B (denominator)
fibn Binom NUMBER-of-TRIALS and PROBABILITY-per-TRIAL
figt Gamma SHAPE and SCALE
fipt Poisson MEAN
EXAMPLES:
Goal: find p-value for t-statistic of 5.5 with 30 degrees of freedom
COMMAND: cdf -t2p fitt 5.5 30
OUTPUT: p = 5.67857e-06
Goal: find F(8,200) threshold that gives a p-value of 0.001
COMMAND: cdf -p2t fift 0.001 8 200
OUTPUT: t = 3.4343
The same functionality is also available in 3dcalc, 1deval, and
ccalc, using functions such as 'fift_t2p(t,a,b)'. In particular,
if you are scripting, ccalc is probably better to use than cdf,
since the output of
ccalc -expr 'fitt_t2p(3,20)'
is the string '0.007076', while the output of
cdf -t2p fitt 3 20
is the string 'p = 0.0070759'.
