On Wed, 24 Dec 2008, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
Ben Bolker wrote:
Khawaja, Aman wrote:
I need to answer one of the question in my open source test is: What are
the four questions asked about the parameters in hypothesis testing?
Please check the posting guide.
* We don't answer homework questions ("open source" doesn't mean
that other people answer the questions for you, it means you can find
the answers outside your own head -- and in any case, we don't have
any of way of knowing that the test is really open).
* this is not an R question but a statistics question
* please don't post the same question multiple times
Besides, this is really unanswerable without access to your teaching material,
which probably has a list of four questions somewhere...
Starting with 'Why is this parameter different from all other parameters?',
perhaps.
It is a bit like the History question: "Who was what in what of whom?"
A traditional British equivalent is "Who dragged whom how many times around the
walls of where?", which does have just about enough context.
The R answer to the original post would probably be
1. Why aren't there any p-values in lmer()?
2. How do I extract p-values from lm()?
3. Can R do post-hoc tests?
4. Can R do tests of normality?
and in statistical consulting the questions might be
1. Doesn't that assume a Normal distribution?
2. Do you have a reference for that?
3. What was the power for that test?
4. Can you redo the test just in the left-handed avocado farmers[*]
-thomas
[*] this particular subset (c) joel on software.
Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlum...@u.washington.edu University of Washington, Seattle
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