Text::NSP::Measures::2D::CHI - Perl module that provides error checks for the Pearson's chi squared, phi coefficient and the Tscore measures.

  use Text::NSP::Measures::2D::CHI::x2;

  my $npp = 60; my $n1p = 20; my $np1 = 20;  my $n11 = 10;

  $x2_value = calculateStatistic( n11=>$n11,
                                      n1p=>$n1p,
                                      np1=>$np1,
                                      npp=>$npp);

  if( ($errorCode = getErrorCode()))
  {
    print STDERR $errorCode." - ".getErrorMessage()."\n"";
  }
  else
  {
    print getStatisticName."value for bigram is ".$x2_value."\n"";
  }

This module is the base class for the Chi-squared and Phi coefficient measures. This module provides error checks specific for these measures, it also implements the computations that are common to these measures.

Pearson's Chi-Squared

  x2 = 2 * [((n11 - m11)/m11)^2 + ((n12 - m12)/m12)^2 +
           ((n21 - m21)/m21)^2 + ((n22 -m22)/m22)^2]

Phi Coefficient

 PHI^2 = ((n11 * n22) - (n21 * n21))^2/(n1p * np1 * np2 * n2p)

T-Score

 tscore = (n11 - m11)/sqrt(n11)

Note that the value of PHI^2 is equivalent to Pearson's Chi-Squared test multiplied by the sample size, that is:

 Chi-Squared = npp * PHI^2

 Although T-score seems quite different from the other two measures we
 have put it in the CHI family because like the other two measures it
 uses the difference between the observed and expected values and is also
 quite similar in ranking the bigrams.

getValues() - This method calls the computeMarginalTotals(), computeObservedValues() and the computeExpectedValues() methods to compute the observed and expected values. It checks thees values for any errors that might cause the PHI and x2 measures to fail.

INPUT PARAMS : $count_values .. Reference of an hash containing the count values computed by the count.pl program.

RETURN VALUES : 1/undef ..returns '1' to indicate success and an undefined(NULL) value to indicate failure.

computeVal() - Computes the deviation in observed value with respect to the expected values

INPUT PARAMS : $n ..Observed value $m ..Expected value

RETURN VALUES : (n-m)^2/m ..the log of the ratio of observed value to expected value.

Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota Duluth<tpederse@d.umn.edu>

Satanjeev Banerjee, Carnegie Mellon University<satanjeev@cmu.edu>

Amruta Purandare, University of Pittsburgh<amruta@cs.pitt.edu>

Bridget Thomson-McInnes, University of Minnesota Twin Cities<bthompson@d.umn.edu>

Saiyam Kohli, University of Minnesota Duluth<kohli003@d.umn.edu>

Last updated: $Id: CHI.pm,v 1.14 2008/03/26 17:18:26 tpederse Exp $

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