17.2: Simulating p-values
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In this exercise we will perform hypothesis testing many times in order to test whether the p-values provided by our statistical test are valid. We will sample data from a normal distribution with a mean of zero, and for each sample perform a t-test to determine whether the mean is different from zero. We will then count how often we reject the null hypothesis; since we know that the true mean is zero, these are by definition Type I errors.
nRuns <- 5000
# create input data frame for do()
input_df <- tibble(id=seq(nRuns)) %>%
group_by(id)
# create a function that will take a sample
# and perform a one-sample t-test
sample_ttest <- function(sampSize=32){
tt.result <- t.test(rnorm(sampSize))
return(tibble(pvalue=tt.result$p.value))
}
# perform simulations
sample_ttest_result <- input_df %>%
do(sample_ttest())
p_error <-
sample_ttest_result %>%
ungroup() %>%
summarize(p_error = mean(pvalue<.05)) %>%
pull()
p_error
## [1] 0.048
We should see that the proportion of samples with is about 5%.