Hello List, I'm trying to prepare some lecture notes on non parametric methods, and I can't manually reproduce the results of the wilcox.test function for ordinal data.
The data I'm using are from David Howell's website, available here http://www.uvm.edu/~dhowell/StatPages/More_Stuff/OrdinalChisq/OrdinalChiSq.html If I run the wilcox.test function on the data I get a p-value of .0407, but when I do it myself I get a p-value of 0.0530. It's not so much the jump across 0.05, but the fact that I thought I knew what the function was doing. I know from the R help page that there is some controversy about how exactly to calculate the test statistic, but that's not what is causing the problem, as I can get the same W value. Am I calculating the test statistic incorrectly? Thanks, sample code below Sam Stewart #Ordinal example dropouts = c(rep(0,25),rep(3,10),rep(2,9),rep(1,13),rep(4,6)) remain = c(rep(0,31),rep(3,2),rep(2,6),rep(1,21),rep(4,3)) tab2 = rbind(table(dropouts),table(remain)) ordTest = wilcox.test(x=dropouts,y=remain,correct=FALSE,exact=FALSE) cumsum(colSums(tab2)) W = max(c(sum(rank(cbind(dropouts,remain))[1:length(dropouts)]),sum(rank(cbind(dropouts,remain))[-(1:length(dropouts))]))) n1 = length(dropouts) n2 = length(remain) testStat = (S-n1*(n1+n2+1)/2)/(sqrt(n1*n2*(n1+n2+1)/12)) 2*(1-pnorm(testStat)) ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
