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author | Louise Crow <louise.crow@gmail.com> | 2014-05-15 16:09:29 +0100 |
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committer | Louise Crow <louise.crow@gmail.com> | 2014-05-15 16:09:29 +0100 |
commit | 26348ce676f7ebbabcc535b2ecf00f99f8fe85c0 (patch) | |
tree | 6034dd656a0f9af152f24d6c491b5e61a7190a7d /spec/lib/confidence_intervals_spec.rb | |
parent | 851ef575cf3c55a3bb194381497b958c2a3ebf1a (diff) | |
parent | b3fa23047bf96bd6a08273c9491ac1ee3b4a3f80 (diff) |
Merge branch 'release/0.18' into wdtk
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diff --git a/spec/lib/confidence_intervals_spec.rb b/spec/lib/confidence_intervals_spec.rb new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cb8717f3d --- /dev/null +++ b/spec/lib/confidence_intervals_spec.rb @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +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 |