Re: [R] Wilcoxon Rank test

2007-09-12 Thread Wolfgang Huber
Dear Omar, the p-value is the probability that a certain summary statistic U of the data takes the value it takes, given that the null-hypothesis is true. Your p-value is 0.002, you can compare this to an alpha of your choice, and if that alpha were larger, you would come to the decision that t

[R] Wilcoxon Rank test

2007-09-12 Thread Omar Baqueiro
Greetings, I am trying to perform a Mann-Whitney U test to a pair of data series, according to what I have read about R the command to use is: wilcox.test(data1, data2) However I am having trouble interpreting the results: --- Wilcoxon rank sum test with continuity correction data: Dataset$OTMi