Re: [R] Basis of fisher.test

2006-01-13 Thread Ted Harding
On 13-Jan-06 Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] ?fisher.test says only: [That following is not a quote from a current version of R.] In the one-sided 2 by 2 cases, p-values are obtained directly using the hypergeometric distribution.

Re: [R] Basis of fisher.test

2006-01-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13-Jan-06 Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] ?fisher.test says only: [That following is not a quote from a current version of R.] In the one-sided 2 by 2 cases, p-values are obtained directly

[R] Basis of fisher.test

2006-01-12 Thread Ted Harding
I want to ascertain the basis of the table ranking, i.e. the meaning of extreme, in Fisher's Exact Test as implemented in 'fisher.test', when applied to RxC tables which are larger than 2x2. One can summarise a strategy for the test as 1) For each table compatible with the margins of the

Re: [R] Basis of fisher.test

2006-01-12 Thread Peter Dalgaard
(Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to ascertain the basis of the table ranking, i.e. the meaning of extreme, in Fisher's Exact Test as implemented in 'fisher.test', when applied to RxC tables which are larger than 2x2. One can summarise a strategy for the test as 1) For each

Re: [R] Basis of fisher.test

2006-01-12 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to ascertain the basis of the table ranking, i.e. the meaning of extreme, in Fisher's Exact Test as implemented in 'fisher.test', when applied to RxC tables which are larger than 2x2. One can summarise a strategy for the test as 1) For