Re: [R] two-sample KS test: data becomes significantly different after normalization

2015-01-15 Thread Monnand
ail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 2:17 AM > To: Andrews, Chris > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] two-sample KS test: data becomes significantly different > after normalization > > I know this must be a wrong method, but I cannot help to ask: Can I only > use the

Re: [R] two-sample KS test: data becomes significantly different after normalization

2015-01-14 Thread Andrews, Chris
ributions are not the same. > > > > This is a problem with testing for equality of distributions. With > large samples, even a small deviation is significant. > > > > Chris > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Monnand [mailto:monn...@gmail.c

Re: [R] two-sample KS test: data becomes significantly different after normalization

2015-01-14 Thread Martin Maechler
_ >> From: Monnand [monn...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 10:14 PM >> To: Andrews, Chris >> Cc: r-help@r-project.org >> Subject: Re: [R] two-sample KS test: data becomes significantly different >> after normaliza

Re: [R] two-sample KS test: data becomes significantly different after normalization

2015-01-13 Thread Monnand
he application, not a statistical one. > > From: Monnand [monn...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 10:14 PM > To: Andrews, Chris > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] two-sample KS test: data becomes significantly different > after nor

Re: [R] two-sample KS test: data becomes significantly different after normalization

2015-01-13 Thread Andrews, Chris
stical one. From: Monnand [monn...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 10:14 PM To: Andrews, Chris Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] two-sample KS test: data becomes significantly different after normalization Thank you, Chris! I think it is exactly the problem you mentio

Re: [R] two-sample KS test: data becomes significantly different after normalization

2015-01-12 Thread Monnand
ignificant. > > Chris > > -Original Message- > From: Monnand [mailto:monn...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2015 10:13 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] two-sample KS test: data becomes significantly different after > normalization > > Hi all, > > T

Re: [R] two-sample KS test: data becomes significantly different after normalization

2015-01-12 Thread Andrews, Chris
samples, even a small deviation is significant. Chris -Original Message- From: Monnand [mailto:monn...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2015 10:13 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] two-sample KS test: data becomes significantly different after normalization Hi all, This

[R] two-sample KS test: data becomes significantly different after normalization

2015-01-11 Thread Monnand
Hi all, This question is sort of related to R (I'm not sure if I used an R function correctly), but also related to stats in general. I'm sorry if this is considered as off-topic. I'm currently working on a data set with two sets of samples. The csv file of the data could be found here: http://pa