On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 markle...@verizon.net wrote:
> by definition, the one tailed p-value has to be <= 0.5 so there is still
> something wrong with your OpenEpi calc.
I think that's a little strong.
Firstly, a one-tailed test in a pre-determined direction can have any p-value.
Secondly, even the smaller one-sided tail probability can be >0.5. The problem
is discreteness. It may be that 0.62 is the smaller of p(T>=t) and p(T<=t),
and this turns out to be the case. The other tail probability is 0.83.
OpenEpi should still be thresholding the p-value at 1, but that's just
cosmetic.
-thomas
Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlum...@u.washington.edu University of Washington, Seattle
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