You need a statistician or at least someone who's take a stats course in the 
last 10 years but it may be what the author was trying to get at.  

At least the binomial is descrete as is 
the z so it may be that the z was used as easier to calculate than a binomial?  
How old is the paper. Before, let's say the early 1980s a lot of people were 
still doing stats by hand (IIRC, even calculators were relatively expensive and 
rare and calculating a binomial of any size was close to impractical.-- I tried 
it once).  So using a z-distribution with Yates correction made sense.

It's a little like early factor analysis when rotate the factors actually meant 
rotate the glass plates. 


--- On Sun, 11/20/11, Colstat <cols...@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Colstat <cols...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [R] Data analysis: normal approximation for binomial
To: "John Kane" <jrkrid...@yahoo.ca>
Cc: r-help@r-project.org
Received: Sunday, November 20, 2011, 10:10 PM

Hey, John

I like the explicit formula they put in there.  I looked around last night and 
found this
http://www.stat.yale.edu/Courses/1997-98/101/binom.htm





which is basically normal approximation to the binomial, I thought that was 
what the author was trying to get at?

Colin

On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 8:49 AM, John Kane <jrkrid...@yahoo.ca> wrote:




Hi Colin,



I'm no statistician and it's been a very long time but IIRC a t-test is a 
'modified version of a x-test that is used on small sample sizes.  (I can hear 
some of our statistians screaming in the background as I type.)







In any case I thing a Z distribution is descrete and a standard normal is not 
so a user can use Yates continuity correction to interpolate values for the 
normal between the discrete z-values.  Or something like this.







I have only encountered it once in a Psych stats course taught by an animal 
geneticist who seemed to think it was important. To be honest, it looked pretty 
trivial for the type of data I'd be likely to see.



I cannot remember ever seeing a continuity correction used in a published 
paper--for that matter I have trouble remembering a z-test.



If you want more information on the subject I found a very tiny bit of info at 
http://books.google.ca/books?id=SiJ2UB3dv9UC&pg=PA139&lpg=PA139&dq=z-test+with+continuity+correction&source=bl&ots=0vMTCUZWXx&sig=bfCPx0vynGjA0tHLRAf6B42x0mM&hl=en&ei=nQHJTo7LPIrf0gHxs6Aq&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=z-test%20with%20continuity%20correction&f=false







A print source that, IIRC, has a discussion of this is "Hayes, W. (1981. 
Statistics. 3rd Ed., Holt Rinehart and Winston



Have fun



--- On Sat, 11/19/11, Colstat <cols...@gmail.com> wrote:



> From: Colstat <cols...@gmail.com>

> Subject: [R] Data analysis: normal approximation for binomial

> To: r-help@r-project.org

> Received: Saturday, November 19, 2011, 6:01 PM

> Dear R experts,

>

> I am trying to analyze data from an article, the data looks

> like this

>

> Patient Age Sex Aura preCSM preFreq preIntensity postFreq

> postIntensity

> postOutcome

> 1 47 F A 4 6 9 2 8 SD

> 2 40 F A/N 5 8 9 0 0 E

> 3 49 M N 5 8 9 2 6 SD

> 4 40 F A 5 3 10 0 0 E

> 5 42 F N 5 4 9 0 0 E

> 6 35 F N 5 8 9 12 7 NR

> 7 38 F A 5 NA 10 2 9 SD

> 8 44 M A 4 4 10 0 0 E

> 9 47 M A 4 5 8 2 7 SD

> 10 53 F A 5 3 10 0 0 E

> 11 41 F N 5 6 7 0 0 E

> 12 49 F A 4 6 8 0 0 E

> 13 48 F A 5 4 8 0 0 E

> 14 63 M N 4 6 9 15 9 NR

> 15 58 M N 5 9 7 2 8 SD

> 16 53 F A 4 3 9 0 0 E

> 17 47 F N 5 4 8 1 4 SD

> 18 34 F A NA  5 9 0 0 E

> 19 53 F N 5 4 9 5 7 NR

> 20 45 F N 5 5 8 5 4 SD

> 21 30 F A 5 3 8 0 0 E

> 22 29 F A 4 5 9 0 0 E

> 23 49 F N 5 9 10 0 0 E

> 24 24 F A 5 5 9 0 0 E

> 25 63 F N 4 19 7 10 7 NR

> 26 62 F A 5 8 9 11 9 NR

> 27 44 F A 5 3 10 0 0 E

> 28 38 F N 4 8 10 1 3 SD

> 29 38 F N 5 3 10 0 0 E

>

> How do I do a binomial distribution z statistics with

> continuity

> correction? basically normal approximation.

> Could anyone give me some suggestions what I (or R) can do

> with these data?

> I have tried tried histogram, maybe t-test? or even

> lattice?  what else can

> I(or can R) do?

> help please, thanks so much.

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