Re: [R] Interpreting the result of a Wilcoxon (Mann-Whitney U) test

2013-10-05 Thread John Kane
+1 John Kane Kingston ON Canada > -Original Message- > From: j...@bitwrit.com.au > Sent: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 17:16:35 +1000 > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Interpreting the result of a Wilcoxon (Mann-Whitney U) > test > > On 10/04/2013 1

Re: [R] Interpreting the result of a Wilcoxon (Mann-Whitney U) test

2013-10-05 Thread Jim Lemon
On 10/04/2013 11:34 PM, S Ellison wrote: ... >> Got it! I agree it should had been more obvious to me... :) I wouldn't feel too bad about that. I've spent most of the last 25 years discovering the hard way that statistics is very much a field where things are 'obvious' only _after_ you know t

Re: [R] Interpreting the result of a Wilcoxon (Mann-Whitney U) test

2013-10-04 Thread S Ellison
> -Original Message- > Got it! I agree it should had been more obvious to me... :) I wouldn't feel too bad about that. I've spent most of the last 25 years discovering the hard way that statistics is very much a field where things are 'obvious' only _after_ you know the answer... S

Re: [R] Interpreting the result of a Wilcoxon (Mann-Whitney U) test

2013-10-03 Thread S Ellison
> I'm having some trouble interpreting the results of a Wilcoxon > (Mann-Whitney U) test. Hope you can help. Two-tailed and one tailed tests generally give different p-values, with the two-tailed p-value twice (one of) the one-tailed values for rather obvious reasons. You need to sort out whic

Re: [R] Interpreting the result of a Wilcoxon (Mann-Whitney U) test

2013-10-03 Thread Filipe Correia
Hi Petr, On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 8:01 AM, PIKAL Petr wrote: >> Well, I guess I'm asking all of the three... :) Not with the intent to >> choose which one fits, but because I was experimenting and making sure >> I really understand how I could use R's implementation of the Wilcoxon >> test. But I'm

Re: [R] Interpreting the result of a Wilcoxon (Mann-Whitney U) test

2013-10-03 Thread PIKAL Petr
Hi > -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Filipe Correia > Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 10:32 PM > To: Charles Determan Jr > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Interpreting the

Re: [R] Interpreting the result of a Wilcoxon (Mann-Whitney U) test

2013-10-02 Thread David Winsemius
On Oct 2, 2013, at 1:33 PM, Filipe Correia wrote: > David, > > On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 6:56 PM, David Winsemius > wrote: > This is not an appropriate question for R-help. You should ask your > statistics instructor or pose the question in a venue where explanations of > purely statistical pro

Re: [R] Interpreting the result of a Wilcoxon (Mann-Whitney U) test

2013-10-02 Thread Filipe Correia
David, On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 6:56 PM, David Winsemius wrote: > > This is not an appropriate question for R-help. You should ask your > statistics instructor or pose the question in a venue where explanations of > purely statistical problems are on-topic. (Just because you used R to get > results

Re: [R] Interpreting the result of a Wilcoxon (Mann-Whitney U) test

2013-10-02 Thread Filipe Correia
Hi, Thank you for your answer Charles. On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Charles Determan Jr wrote: > When you chose a different alternative argument you are asking a different > null hypothesis. I was considering the null hypothesis was expressed through the "mu" argument. I think I got this ide

Re: [R] Interpreting the result of a Wilcoxon (Mann-Whitney U) test

2013-10-02 Thread David Winsemius
On Oct 2, 2013, at 8:33 AM, Filipe Correia wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm having some trouble interpreting the results of a Wilcoxon > (Mann-Whitney U) test. Hope you can help. > > This is the R script that I am running: > > a <- c(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 5, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1,

Re: [R] Interpreting the result of a Wilcoxon (Mann-Whitney U) test

2013-10-02 Thread Charles Determan Jr
Filipe, When you chose a different alternative argument you are asking a different null hypothesis. You are looking at a two-tailed, lesser than, and greater than hypotheses. Which one you chose is dependent upon your initial question. Are you asking generically if your two populations (a and b

[R] Interpreting the result of a Wilcoxon (Mann-Whitney U) test

2013-10-02 Thread Filipe Correia
Hello everyone, I'm having some trouble interpreting the results of a Wilcoxon (Mann-Whitney U) test. Hope you can help. This is the R script that I am running: a <- c(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 5, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1) b <- c(1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1