replaced p-value with zscore for lookup in ztable.

[mothur.git] / cooccurrencecommand.cpp

diff --git a/cooccurrencecommand.cpp b/cooccurrencecommand.cpp
index 75b87fae4303f161a1f75fb632e831672a80e29d..6363f2a0bafec54c478317a6b33b44b336f95b2a 100644 (file)
--- a/cooccurrencecommand.cpp
+++ b/cooccurrencecommand.cpp
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ int CooccurrenceCommand::execute(){
         m->openOutputFile(outputFileName, out);
         outputNames.push_back(outputFileName);  outputTypes["summary"].push_back(outputFileName);
         out.setf(ios::fixed, ios::floatfield); out.setf(ios::showpoint);
-        out << "metric\tlabel\tScore\tpValue\n";
+        out << "metric\tlabel\tScore\tzScore\n";
 
                //as long as you are not at the end of the file or done wih the lines you want
                while((lookup[0] != NULL) && ((allLines == 1) || (userLabels.size() != 0))) {
@@ -530,12 +530,20 @@ int CooccurrenceCommand::getCooccurrence(vector<SharedRAbundVector*>& thisLookUp
         
         m->mothurOutEndLine(); m->mothurOut("average metric score: " + toString(nullMean)); m->mothurOutEndLine();
         
+        //calc_p_value is not a statistical p-value, it's just the average that are either > or < the initscore.
+        //All it does is show what is expected in a competitively structured community
+        //zscore is output so p-value can be looked up in a ztable
         double pvalue = 0.0;
         if (metric == "cscore" || metric == "checker") { pvalue = trial.calc_pvalue_greaterthan (stats, initscore); }
         else{ pvalue = trial.calc_pvalue_lessthan (stats, initscore); }
+
+        double sd = trial.getSD(runs, stats, nullMean);
+
+        double zscore = trial.get_zscore(sd, nullMean, initscore);
         
-        m->mothurOut("pvalue: " + toString(pvalue)); m->mothurOutEndLine();
-        out << metric << '\t' << thisLookUp[0]->getLabel() << '\t' << nullMean << '\t' << pvalue << endl;
+        m->mothurOut("zscore: " + toString(zscore)); m->mothurOutEndLine();
+        m->mothurOut("standard deviation: " + toString(sd)); m->mothurOutEndLine();
+        out << metric << '\t' << thisLookUp[0]->getLabel() << '\t' << nullMean << '\t' << zscore << endl;
         
         return 0;
     }