test: migrate stats/levene-test to ULP-based assertions

[kgryte]

Resolves a part of #11352.

Description

What is the purpose of this pull request?

This pull request:

• migrates the tests for stats/levene-test from relative tolerance testing (delta <= tol, where tol = 2.0 * EPS * abs( expected )) to ULP difference testing using @stdlib/assert/is-almost-same-value.
• removes the now unused @stdlib/math/base/special/abs and @stdlib/constants/float64/eps requires.

Each assertion uses the measured minimum ULP value which still passes. Bounds were found by scanning upward from 0 for every assertion and then confirming that N-1 fails:

Test case	Quantity	ULP
Levene's test for homogeneity of variance (R fixtures)	pValue	2
Levene's test for homogeneity of variance (R fixtures)	statistic	1

Explicit tightness check against the committed R fixtures:

pValue     N=2 -> true  | N=1 -> false
statistic  N=1 -> true  | N=0 -> false

The package has no test/test.native.js, and test/test.validate.js contains no tolerance-based assertions, so test/test.js is the only test file changed.

Related Issues

Does this pull request have any related issues?

This pull request has the following related issues:

• [RFC]: Migrate math/base/special packages from relative tolerance testing to ULP difference testing (tracking issue) #11352

Questions

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No.

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Verification performed locally:

• make test TESTS_FILTER=".*/stats/levene-test/.*" → 91 passing (61 in test/test.js, 30 in test/test.validate.js), 0 failing. Run twice at the final ULP values to confirm determinism.
• make eslint-tests TESTS_FILTER=".*/stats/levene-test/.*" → clean.

Two environment notes for maintainers, neither of which is part of this diff:

• A fresh make install-node-modules currently fails on develop: several transitive dependencies (array-includes@3.2.0, string.prototype.trim@1.2.11, string.prototype.trimend@1.0.10, es-abstract-get@1.0.0) declare es-object-atoms@^1.1.2, but the highest version published to the registry is 1.1.1. A temporary local overrides entry pinning es-object-atoms to 1.1.1 resolves the install; that workaround was used only locally and was reverted before committing.
• The lint-editorconfig-files pre-commit step could not run in this sandbox because it downloads the editorconfig-checker binary from GitHub releases, which was network-blocked. The file was instead verified by hand against .editorconfig (LF endings, UTF-8, tab indentation, no trailing whitespace, final newline); all other pre-commit checks, including eslint-tests and commitlint, ran and passed.

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This PR was authored by Claude Code as part of an automated, human-configured routine which converts one package per run. The ULP bounds were measured programmatically against the existing R fixtures rather than guessed.

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Package	Statements	Branches	Functions	Lines
stats/levene-test	$\\color{green}470/470$ $\\color{green}+100.00\\%$	$\\color{green}57/57$ $\\color{green}+100.00\\%$	$\\color{green}6/6$ $\\color{green}+100.00\\%$	$\\color{green}470/470$ $\\color{green}+100.00\\%$

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Reference	Assessment	Reasoning
#11352	suspicious	Issue #11352 is an RFC explicitly scoped to migrating math/base/special packages from relative-tolerance to ULP-based testing (its own instructions say to search for a package "in math/base/special"). This PR migrates tests for stats/levene-test, which is outside the issue's stated scope.

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