[R] Chi-Square Test Disagreement

2008-11-26 Thread Andrew Choens
I was asked by my boss to do an analysis on a large data set, and I am trying to convince him to let me use R rather than SPSS. I think Sweave could make my life much much easier. To get me a little closer to this goal, I ran my analysis through R and SPSS and compared the resulting values. In all

Re: [R] Chi-Square Test Disagreement

2008-11-26 Thread Chuck Cleland
On 11/26/2008 9:51 AM, Andrew Choens wrote: I was asked by my boss to do an analysis on a large data set, and I am trying to convince him to let me use R rather than SPSS. I think Sweave could make my life much much easier. To get me a little closer to this goal, I ran my analysis through R

Re: [R] Chi-Square Test Disagreement

2008-11-26 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Andy, On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:51:50 + Andrew Choens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was asked by my boss to do an analysis on a large data set, and I am trying to convince him to let me use R rather than SPSS. Very laudable of you. :) This is the output from R: chisq.test(test29)

Re: [R] Chi-Square Test Disagreement

2008-11-26 Thread Andrew Choens
On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 00:46 +0800, Berwin A Turlach wrote: Chuck explained already the reason for this small difference. I just take issue about it being an important difference. In my opinion, this difference is not important at all. It would only be important to people who are still

Re: [R] Chi-Square Test Disagreement

2008-11-26 Thread Ted Harding
On 26-Nov-08 17:57:52, Andrew Choens wrote: [...] And, since I do work for government, if I ask for a roomful of calculators, I might just get them. And really, what am I going to do with a roomful of calculators? --andy Insert something humorous here. :-) Next time the launch of an

Re: [R] Chi-Square Test Disagreement

2008-11-26 Thread Andrew Choens
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