On 29 April 2011 08:43, viostorm <rob.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > After I shared comments form the forum yesterday with the biostatistician he > indicated this: > > "Fisher's exact test is the non-parametric analog for the Chi-square > test for 2x2 comparisons. A version (or extension) of the Fisher's Exact > test, known as the Freeman-Halton test applies to comparisons for tables > greater than 2x2. SAS can calculate both statistics using the following > instructions. > > proc freq; tables a * b / fisher;" >
SAS documentation says: "Fisher's exact test was extended to general R×C tables by Freeman and Halton (1951), and this test is *also* known as the Freeman-Halton test." Emphasis mine. Jeremy -- Jeremy Miles Psychology Research Methods Wiki: www.researchmethodsinpsychology.com ______________________________________________ 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.
