R help - Aug 2005 - about "pnorm"

As to the function"pnorm",the default degree of freedom(df) is
infinite.

I wanna know how to set the df as I want.

Help on pnorm doesn't have df setting.The only choice are:"mean, sd,
lower.tail, log.p",but no df.

For instance:
sample size=6
df=6-1=5
t value=9.143

I wanna to the corresponding p value by using function "pnorm".
How can I do it?



Thanks a lot for your help!

My best

 

 



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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 8:33 PM
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> Subject: [R] about "pnorm"
> 
> As to the function"pnorm",the default degree of freedom(df) is
infinite.
> 
> I wanna know how to set the df as I want.
> 
> Help on pnorm doesn't have df setting.The only choice are:"mean,
sd, lower.tail,
> log.p",but no df.
> 
> For instance:
> sample size=6
> df=6-1=5
> t value=9.143
> 
> I wanna to the corresponding p value by using function "pnorm".
> How can I do it?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help!
> 
> My best
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> *******************************************
> Xin Meng
> Capitalbio Corporation
> National Engineering Research Center
> for Beijing Biochip Technology
> Microarray and Bioinformatics Dept.
> Research Engineer
> Tel: +86-10-80715888/80726868-6364/6333
> Fax: +86-10-80726790
> Email#:xmeng at capitalbio.com
> Address:18 Life Science Parkway,
> Changping District, Beijing 102206, China
If you are using t-values with small degrees of freedom, shouldn't you be
using pt() rather than pnorm().

Try pt(9.143, 5).

Dan Nordlund
Bothell, WA

Try

?pt

Ted.

On 30/08/05 13:33,   wrote,:
> As to the function"pnorm",the default degree of freedom(df) is
infinite.
> 
> I wanna know how to set the df as I want.
> 
> Help on pnorm doesn't have df setting.The only choice are:"mean,
sd, lower.tail, log.p",but no df.
> 
> For instance:
> sample size=6
> df=6-1=5
> t value=9.143
> 
> I wanna to the corresponding p value by using function "pnorm".
> How can I do it?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help!
> 
> My best
> 
> Xin Meng 

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