If you want to generate a p-value, what is the null hypothesis ?
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Adaikalavan Ramasamy
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[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Uwe Ligges
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 3:43 PM
To: Maya Sanders
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Subject: Re: [R] pvalues
Maya Sanders wrote:> dear all-
> If I have a vector of numbers (not necessarily
> normally distributed) how can I get the p-value of a
> number in this distribution. I am interested in the "inverse" of
> 'quantile' . thank you-
> Maya
>
I'm not sure whether I got the point, but my guess is that you are
trying to count how many observations in a vector x have values less
than a and divide by the total number of observations in x, e.g.:
x <- rnorm(20)
a <- 0
sum(x < a) / length(x)
Uwe Ligges
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