[R] odd results from polr vs wilcoxon test

2003-12-30 Thread Jonathan Williams
Dear R helpers, I would like to ask why polr occasionally generates results that look very odd. I have been trying to compare the power of proportional odds logistic regression with the Wilcoxon test. I generated random samples, applied both tests and extracted and compared the p-values, thus:-

Re: [R] odd results from polr vs wilcoxon test

2003-12-30 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Jonathan Williams wrote: summary(fit1) Call: polr(formula = ordered(dat) ~ grp, control = c(maxiter = 1, trace = 0)) Coefficients: Value Std. Errort value grp -15.82468 169.3329 -0.0934531 Intercepts: ValueStd. Error t value 2|3