andrew collier <digitalpenis at bluebottle.com> napsal dne 13.11.2007
07:39:39:
> peter, thanks for your help with my questions regarding cor.test(). i
have > another question though: does this function make any assumptions about
the > underlying distribution of the two sequences? does it assume that they
have a > gaussian distribution?
Hi
for answering this question I would need to consult docummentation and/or
source code what you you can do also.
>
> i ask because the data that i am working with is two binary sequences.
just > series of 0 and 1. will the confidence intervals and p-values generated
by > cor.test() still apply?
I have no idea as I am chemist and I use statistics mainly for evaluating
my results. Therefore my knoledge of satistics are somewhat limited. If I
had a new problem which I had not solved yet I would took some statistics
textbook and try to find similar problem its solution and then I would try
to mimic it in R.
Regards
Petr
>
> cheers,
> andrew.
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