Re: [R] help comparing two median with R

2007-04-18 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Thomas Lumley wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: The points that Thomas and Brian have made are certainly correct, if one is truly interested in testing for differences in medians or means. But the Wilcoxon test provides a valid test of x y more generally. The test

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2007-04-18 Thread Cody_Hamilton
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Re: [R] help comparing two median with R

2007-04-18 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
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2007-04-18 Thread Greg Snow
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2007-04-18 Thread Prof Brian D Ripley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (801) 408-8111 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 10:06 AM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] help comparing two median with R Has anyone proposed using

[R] help comparing two median with R

2007-04-17 Thread Pedro A Reche
Dear R users, I am new to R and I would like to ask your help with the following topic. I have three sets of numeral data, 2 sets are paired and a third is independent of the other two. For each of these sets I have obtained their basic statistics (mean, median, stdv, range ...). Now I

Re: [R] help comparing two median with R

2007-04-17 Thread gyadav
] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17-04-07 02:22 PM To r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch cc Subject [R] help comparing two median with R Dear R users, I am new to R and I would like to ask your help with the following topic. I have three sets of numeral data, 2 sets are paired and a third

Re: [R] help comparing two median with R

2007-04-17 Thread Jim Lemon
Pedro A Reche wrote: Dear R users, I am new to R and I would like to ask your help with the following topic. I have three sets of numeral data, 2 sets are paired and a third is independent of the other two. For each of these sets I have obtained their basic statistics (mean, median,

Re: [R] help comparing two median with R

2007-04-17 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Thomas Lumley wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Robert McFadden wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Lemon Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 12:37 PM To: Pedro A Reche Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] help comparing two

Re: [R] help comparing two median with R

2007-04-17 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Robert McFadden wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Lemon Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 12:37 PM To: Pedro A Reche Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] help comparing two median with R Pedro

Re: [R] help comparing two median with R

2007-04-17 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Robert McFadden wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Lemon Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 12:37 PM To: Pedro A Reche Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] help comparing two median with R Pedro

Re: [R] help comparing two median with R

2007-04-17 Thread Robert McFadden
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Lemon Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 12:37 PM To: Pedro A Reche Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] help comparing two median with R Pedro A Reche wrote: Dear R users, I am new

Re: [R] help comparing two median with R

2007-04-17 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Thomas Lumley wrote: There actually is an exact test for the median that does not assume a location shift: dichotomize your data at the pooled median to get a 2x2 table of above/below median by group, and do Fisher's exact test on the table. Fascinating. But can one be sure that the

Re: [R] help comparing two median with R

2007-04-17 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: The points that Thomas and Brian have made are certainly correct, if one is truly interested in testing for differences in medians or means. But the Wilcoxon test provides a valid test of x y more generally. The test is consonant with the