I have troubles understanding how goodfit() function in the vcd package computes the Pearson coefficient. Can anybody provide more information on the computation?
In particular, for HorseKicks data in vcd package, goodfit() yields > oo <- goodfit(HorseKicks,type="poisson",method="MinChisq") > summary(oo) Goodness-of-fit test for poisson distribution X^2 df P(> X^2) Pearson 0.594649 3 0.8976563 Warning message: In summary.goodfit(oo) : Chi-squared approximation may be incorrect However, if I compute the Pearson coefficient by hand, I get a different value for chi-squared > with(oo, sum( (observed-fitted)^2/fitted )) [1] 0.694577 I am not sure where I am making a mistake. Any suggestions? Regards, Boris. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.