On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Mike Miller <mbmille...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, viostorm wrote: > >> I'm using fisher.exact on a 4x2 table and it seems to work. >> >> Does anyone know exactly what is going on? I thought fisher.exact is only >> for 2x2 tables. > > > You were wrong. I'm sure there's nothing wrong with the program. You will > find that with bigger tables and larger sample sizes the computational cost > becomes quite enormous.
In fact, with large tables, roundoff error becomes significant before computational cost becomes prohibitive. -thomas -- Thomas Lumley Professor of Biostatistics University of Auckland ______________________________________________ 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.