What are you seeing here? I get identical results in the two cases.
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> # users would benefit from a warning about the behavior in the
> # groups.unbalanced case below. A propogation of difference is the variance
> # calculation is leading to an apparently significant difference in
> # means, even though the numeric values are all identical. Obviously upon
> # inspection the difference in means is meaningless, but users might be warned
> # if all of the input data is identical
That's not so easy to achieve, given rounding error, but I am seeing
0 variance in both cases.
> xx <- rep(2.10,80)
>
> groups.balanced <- as.factor(c(rep("one",40),rep("two",40)))
> groups.unbalanced <- as.factor(c(rep("one",44),rep("two",36)))
>
> t.test(xx ~ groups.balanced)
>
> t.test(xx ~ groups.unbalanced)
>
>
>
> <<insert bug report here>>
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> minor = 9.0
> year = 2004
> month = 04
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