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authorLouise Crow <louise.crow@gmail.com>2014-03-13 17:43:33 +0000
committerLouise Crow <louise.crow@gmail.com>2014-03-13 17:44:24 +0000
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Rename spec files so they're run by rake spec.
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+require 'confidence_intervals'
+
+describe "ci_bounds" do
+
+ describe "when passed all successes" do
+ it "should never return a high CI above 1" do
+ ci = ci_bounds 16, 16, 0.01
+ ci[1].should be <= 1
+ end
+ end
+
+ describe "when passed all failures" do
+ it "should never return a low CI below 0" do
+ ci = ci_bounds 0, 10, 0.05
+ ci[0].should be >= 0
+ end
+ end
+
+ describe "when passed 4 out of 10 successes (with 0.05 power)" do
+ it "should return the correct Wilson's interval" do
+ # The expected results here were taken from an online
+ # calculator:
+ # http://www.vassarstats.net/prop1.html
+ ci = ci_bounds 7, 10, 0.05
+ ci[0].should be_within(0.001).of(0.3968)
+ ci[1].should be_within(0.001).of(0.8922)
+ end
+ end
+
+end