The
statistics for testing for monotonic trend
To test for monotonic
trend, the following five statistics are implemented in the package:
1. The likelihood ratio
test (Barlow et al. 1972, and Robertson et al. 1988)
2. Williams (Williams,
1971 and 1972)
3. Marcus (Marcus, 1976)
4. The M statistic (Hu et
al., 2005)
5. The modified M
statistic (Lin et al., 2007)
The formulas for the
statistics are presented below: