Re: [R] On Corrections for Chi-Sq Goodness of Fit Test

2011-12-25 Thread Michael Fuller
Hi Rolf, Thank you for clarifying. After reading the help page over more carefully, I realize that I misunderstood what chisq.test. was doing. I thought it was using simulation whenever the expected frequencies were given using the p argument, whereas it used the asymptotic chi-squared

Re: [R] On Corrections for Chi-Sq Goodness of Fit Test

2011-12-22 Thread Rolf Turner
On 20/12/11 10:24, Michael Fuller wrote: TOPIC My question regards the philosophy behind how R implements corrections to chi-square statistical tests. At least in recent versions (I'm using 2.13.1 (2011-07-08) on OSX 10.6.8.), the chisq.test function applies the Yates continuity correction

[R] On Corrections for Chi-Sq Goodness of Fit Test

2011-12-19 Thread Michael Fuller
TOPIC My question regards the philosophy behind how R implements corrections to chi-square statistical tests. At least in recent versions (I'm using 2.13.1 (2011-07-08) on OSX 10.6.8.), the chisq.test function applies the Yates continuity correction for 2 by 2 contingency tables. But when used