Re: [R] Wilcox Test / Mann Whitney U Test

2011-10-06 Thread Sam Stewart
And I figured it out, sorry to bother the list. The normal approximation I was using is not accurate in the presence of ties. Sam On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Sam Stewart wrote: > So I checked it with the wilcox_test in the coin library, and got the > same result.  That makes me more confid

Re: [R] Wilcox Test / Mann Whitney U Test

2011-10-06 Thread Sam Stewart
So I checked it with the wilcox_test in the coin library, and got the same result. That makes me more confident that I made a mistake, but still doesn't help me find it d = data.frame(value=c(dropouts,remain),group=c(rep("dropout",length(dropouts)),rep("remain",length(remain wilcox_test(valu

[R] Wilcox Test / Mann Whitney U Test

2011-10-06 Thread Sam Stewart
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/OrdinalChis