[R] P values
Greg Snow
Greg.Snow at imail.org
Thu May 6 18:09:08 CEST 2010
Because if you use the sample standard deviation then it is a t test not a z test.
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Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
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>
> Why
>
> s = 1
>
> ##
>
> s = sd(A) #?
>
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>
> How do u calculated p values for a z test..
>
> so far i ve done this
>
> A = read.table("cw3_data.txt")
>
> xbar = mean(A)
> s = 1
> n = 20
> mu = 0
>
> z.test = (xbar-mu)/(s/sqrt(n))
>
> p.value = pnorm(abs(z.test))
>
> error = qnorm(0.99)*s/sqrt(n)
> left = xbar - error
> right = xbar + error
>
> and have got values off of it...but the values for p dont match up with
> other sites that i have used to check it agaisnt..such as wolfram alpha
> value i got was 0.7335039 when wolfram got 0.533.. any ideas where i
> ve
> gone wrong? cheers
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