RE: [R] Estimates for proportions

2003-06-05 Thread Tanya Murphy
Thanks Spencer! That's what I was looking for. My data are not at all normal and neither are the transformed values because The majority are at an upper limit that is not 1 (these are grouped data abstracted from a paper). There's nothing that can be done about that, but it was good to compare

Re: [R] Estimates for proportions

2003-06-05 Thread Spencer Graves
1. If none of the numbers are 0 or 1, I might try a logit transformation log(p/(1-p)). Then I'd make a normal probability plot of the transformed variables to check the transformation. If that seemed OK., then I'd do the computations on logit space and back transform the result. 2. I