[R] Getting all possible contingency tables

[John Kane]

R can usually do almost anything but if the function exists I am not aware of it.  Sorry. I did misunderstand what you were doing.

John Kane
Kingston ON Canada


> -----Original Message-----
> From: bogaso.christofer at gmail.com
> Sent: Sat, 01 Dec 2012 19:33:09 +0545
> To: jrkrideau at inbox.com
> Subject: Re: [R] Getting all possible contingency tables
> 
> Thanks John for your reply. However still not clear how I should proceed.
> 
> My goal is to generate all possible contingency tables. Basically I want
> to see the distribution of Chi-squared Statistic under independence
> (NULL).
> 
> So I was thinking if I can generate all possible permutation of integer
> numbers having sum equal to (8 + 10 + 12 + 6) = 36. Is there any R
> function to do that?
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> 
> 
> On 01-12-2012 18:39, John Kane wrote:
>> Are you basically asking for all possible permutations of the table?  If
>> so see ?permn in the combinat package.
>> 
>> John Kane
>> Kingston ON Canada
>> 
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: bogaso.christofer at gmail.com
>>> Sent: Sat, 01 Dec 2012 18:10:15 +0545
>>> To: r-help at r-project.org
>>> Subject: [R] Getting all possible contingency tables
>>> 
>>> Hello all,
>>> 
>>> Let say I have 2-way contingency table:
>>> 
>>> Tab <- matrix(c(8, 10, 12, 6), nr = 2)
>>> 
>>> and the Chi-squared test could not reject the independence:
>>> 
>>>   > chisq.test(Tab)
>>> 
>>>           Pearson's Chi-squared test with Yates' continuity correction
>>> 
>>> data:  Tab
>>> X-squared = 1.0125, df = 1, p-value = 0.3143
>>> 
>>> 
>>> However I want to get all possible contingency tables under this
>>> independence scenario (one of them would obviously be the given table
>>> as, we could not reject the independence), and for each such table I
>>> want to calculate the Ch-sq statistic.
>>> 
>>> Can somebody help me how to generate all such tables?
>>> 
>>> Thanks and regards,
>>> 
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