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Introduction

The trend test is applied when the data take the form of a 2 × k contingency table. For example, if k = 3 we have

	B = 1	B = 2	B = 3
A = 1	N11	N12	N13
A = 2	N21	N22	N23

This table can be completed with the marginal totals of the two variables

	B = 1	B = 2	B = 3	Sum
A = 1	N11	N12	N13	R1
A = 2	N21	N22	N23	R2
Sum	C1	C2	C3	N

where R₁ = N₁₁ + N₁₂ + N₁₃, and C₁ = N₁₁ + N₂₁, etc.

The trend test statistic is

$T\equiv \sum _{i=1}^k{t}_i(N_{1i}{R}_2-N_{2i}{R}_1),$

where the t_i are weights, and the difference N_1iR₂ −N_2iR₁ can be seen as the difference between N_1i and N_2i after reweighting the rows to have the same total.

The hypothesis of no association (the null hypothesis) can be expressed as:

$\mathrm{Pr}(A=1|B=1)=\cdots =\mathrm{Pr}(A=1|B=k).$

Assuming this holds, then, using iterated expectation,

$\mathrm{E}(T)=\mathrm{E}(\mathrm{E}(T|R_1,R_2))=\mathrm{E}(0)=0.$

The variance can be computed by decomposition, yielding

$\mathrm{V}\mathrm{a}\mathrm{r}(T)=\frac{R_1{R}_2}{N}(\sum _{i=1}^k{t}_i^2{C}_i(N-C_i)-2\sum _{i=1}^{k-1}\sum _{j=i+1}^k{t}_i{t}_j{C}_i{C}_j),$

and as a large sample approximation,

$\frac{T}{\sqrt{\mathrm{V}\mathrm{a}\mathrm{r}(T)}}\sim \mathrm{N}(0,1).$

The weights t_i can be chosen such that the trend test becomes locally most powerful for detecting particular types of associations. For example, if k = 3 and we suspect that B = 1 and B = 2 have similar frequencies (within each row), but that B = 3 has a different frequency, then the weights t = (1,1,0) should be used. If we suspect a linear trend in the frequencies, then the weights t = (0,1,2) should be used. These weights are also often used when the frequencies are suspected to change monotonically with B, even if the trend is not necessarily linear.

Interpretation and role

The trend test will have higher power than the chi-squared test when the suspected trend is correct, but the ability to detect unsuspected trends is sacrificed. This is an example of a general technique of directing hypothesis tests toward narrow alternatives. The trend test exploits the suspected effect direction to increase power, but this does not affect the sampling distribution of the test statistic under the null hypothesis. Thus, the suspected trend in effects is not an assumption that must hold in order for the test results to be meaningful.

Application to genetics

Suppose that there are three possible genotypes at some locus, and we refer to these as aa, Aa and AA. The distribution of genotype counts can be put in a 2 × 3 contingency table. For example, consider the following data, in which the genotype frequencies vary linearly in the cases and are constant in the controls:

	Genotype aa	Genotype Aa	Genotype AA	Sum
Controls	20	20	20	60
Cases	10	20	30	60
Sum	30	40	50	120

In genetics applications, the weights are selected according to the suspected mode of inheritance. For example, in order to test whether allele a is dominant over allele A, the choice t = (1, 1, 0) is locally optimal. To test whether allele a is recessive to allele A, the optimal choice is t = (0, 1, 1). To test whether alleles a and A are codominant, the choice t = (0, 1, 2) is locally optimal. For complex diseases, the underlying genetic model is often unknown. In genome-wide association studies, the additive (or codominant) version of the test is often used.

In the numerical example, the standardized test statistics for various weight vectors are

Weights	Standardized test statistic
1,1,0	1.85
0,1,1	−2.1
0,1,2	−2.3

and the Pearson chi-squared test gives a standardized test statistic of 2. Thus, we obtain a stronger significance level if the weights corresponding to additive (codominant) inheritance are used. Note that for the significance level to give a p-value with the usual probabilistic interpretation, the weights must be specified before examining the data, and only one set of weights may be used.

See also

• List of analyses of categorical data

References

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