On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Stan Brown wrote in part:
> A. G. McDowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >The significance value associated with the one-tailed test will always
> >be half the significance value associated with the two-tailed test,
>
> For means, yes. Not for proportions, I think.
Oh? Why not? Is there something about proportions that militates
against assigning 1/2 alpha to each tail of the sampling distribution?
< snip, the rest >
-- DFB.
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