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Test for trend in proportions

The test for trends in proportions is also known as the Cochran Armitage test. It performs Chi-squared test for trend in proportions and is used to test whether there is a difference between groups considering the size of the groups. It takes count data from contingency tables where you have one nominal variable with two levels (i.e “Mutated”, “Wild-type”) and the other variable is an ordinal value with minimum 3 values where the variables is naturally ranked