On Sep 20, 2009, at 9:05 PM, j...@terraspark.com wrote:

Hi there all,

This is my first post to the list and I'll first say a few things:
- R is great!
- The archives of this list have helped me solve all of my problems/ questions so far
- I only know enough statistics "to be dangerous"

I'm looking for a way to do post-hoc tests for the Friedman test. I have a dataset from a within-subjects design with 5 conditions where some of the dependent variables are ordinal, resulting from (summed) likert-scaled questionnaire data.

From what I've read, I could use a wilcox.test on pairs of conditions and adjust the p level, but is there something in R that does a better job/automates this.

I've seen references to the npmc package but that doesn't seem to do what I'm looking for, because it only accepts a data frame with two columns - i.e. there's no way to specify grouping/subject identifiers.

Thanks,

There is a worked example in the coin package for using a permutation test to examine differences after a Friedman test. The authors, Hothorn , Hornik , van de Wiel, and Zeileis, call this method the Wilcoxon-Nemenyi-McDonald-Thompson test and cite: Hollander & Wolfe (1999), page 295

http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/library/coin/html/SymmetryTests.html

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David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT

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