no, because the formula for the test statistics ( even assuming that variances are equal ) of the two different tests are different. in the pairwise t test, the pairwise differences are viewed as one sample so it turns into a one sample test. any intro stat book will have the formulas.
mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Li,Qinghong,ST.LOUIS,Molecular Biology" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 5:07 PM Subject: [R] pairwise.t.test vs. t. test > Hi, > > If I set the p.adjust="none", does it meant that the output p values from > the pairwise.t.test will be the same as those from individual t.tests (set > var.equal=T, alternative="t")? > > I actually got different p values from the two tests. See below. Is it > supposed to be this way? > > Thanks > Johnny > >> x > [1] 61.6 52.7 61.3 65.2 62.8 63.7 64.8 58.7 44.9 57.0 64.3 55.1 50.0 41.0 > [15] 43.0 45.9 52.2 45.5 46.9 31.6 40.6 44.8 39.4 31.0 37.5 32.6 23.2 34.6 > [29] 38.3 38.1 19.5 21.2 15.8 33.3 28.6 25.8 >> Grp > [1] Yng Yng Yng Yng Yng Yng Yng Yng Yng Yng Yng Yng Med Med Med Med Med > Med > [19] Med Med Med Med Med Med Old Old Old Old Old Old Old Old Old Old Old > Old > Levels: Yng Med Old >> pairwise.t.test(x=x,g=Grp,p.adjust.method="none") > > Pairwise comparisons using t tests with pooled SD > > data: x and Grp > > Yng Med > Med 1.0e-06 - > Old 2.0e-12 2.6e-05 > > P value adjustment method: none > > >> t.test(x=x[1:12],y=x[25:36],var.equal=T, alternative="t") > > Two Sample t-test > > data: x[1:12] and x[25:36] > t = 10.5986, df = 22, p-value = 4.149e-10 > alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 0 > 95 percent confidence interval: > 24.37106 36.22894 > sample estimates: > mean of x mean of y > 59.34167 29.04167 > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.