Paper #252
AutoChi: Automated Statistical Testing of Proportions with Chi-Square Tests
Presenting author: Ahmed Alsakhawi
Session: I08
Abstract
This paper introduces AutoChi, a novel statistical software
for automated hypothesis testing and statistical analysis
using non-parametric chi-square and pairwise post-hoc
z-tests. The first novelty of AutoChi is exhaustive and
automated hypothesis testing and reporting, comparing all
groups and pairwise comparisons. Although several software
packages and libraries are available for statistical
analysis, including R packages, Python libraries, and
ready-to-use software packages with graphical user
interfaces (GUI), only a small percentage of these software
library tools implement end-to-end automated statistical
analysis through a user-friendly graphical user interface.
Furthermore, no software tool was found to carry out
end-to-end automated statistical analysis for testing
differences in proportions, followed by post-hoc
statistical tests and visual analysis. AutoChi addresses
both gaps for chi-square testing, namely the gap with
respect to a fully integrated automated workflow and the
gap with respect to post-hoc statistical and visual
analysis. The novelty of AutoChi is the application of
graph analytics through dominance graphs and arc diagrams
to visualize the results of all the conducted tests.
Overall, AutoChi can accelerate data analysis and
hypothesis testing through automation and enable rapid
generation of insights through post-hoc visual analysis
that are currently not conveniently possible in existing
statistical software.