More than likely.
Take a look at the 'workspace' argument in ?fisher.test and review the
second paragraph in Details:
"For 2 by 2 cases, p-values are obtained directly using the (central or
non-central) hypergeometric distribution. Otherwise, computations are
based on a C version of the FORTRAN subroutine FEXACT which implements
the network developed by Mehta and Patel (1986) and improved by
Clarkson, Fan and Joe (1993). The FORTRAN code can be obtained from
http://www.netlib.org/toms/643. Note this fails (with an error message)
when the entries of the table are too large. (It transposes the table if
necessary so it has no more rows than columns. One constraint is that
the product of the row marginals be less than 2^31 - 1.)"
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
Dr. Jeff Miller wrote:
I posted this last night but I think I figured out the problem.
I checked on the underlying equation for the Fisher Exact Test for tables
greater than 2X2. It looks like I have an insane amount of factorials to be
multiplied.
Is that problem? Is it an overflow issue?
Jeff
Last night�s post:
I just a ran a fisher.test on a 9x5 table and received the following message
Error in fisher.test(apaslg.t) : FEXACT error 30.
Stack length exceeded in f3xact.
This problem should not occur.
I agree. The problem should not occur.
I did some searching but only found other reports of the problem.
Does anyone know of a fix?
Jeff
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