R help - May 2012 - two sided wilcox test

Hey, could I just ask you a quick question?


if i have two sets of numbers, eg:

list1 = 1,3,4,4,4
list2 = 1,2,4,5,6



and in R, i run the command:

wilcox.test(list1, list2, paired=TRUE, alternative="greater")

and say i get a p-value of 0.0001

Does this tell me that my values in list 1 tend to be larger than my values
in list 2, and that the difference in the distributions is significant?

Thanks

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Em 23/5/2012 11:59, evaD escreveu:
> Hey, could I just ask you a quick question?
>
>
> if i have two sets of numbers, eg:
>
> list1 = 1,3,4,4,4 list2 = 1,2,4,5,6
>
>
>
> and in R, i run the command:
>
> wilcox.test(list1, list2, paired=TRUE, alternative="greater")
>
> and say i get a p-value of 0.0001
>
> Does this tell me that my values in list 1 tend to be larger than my
> values in list 2, and that the difference in the distributions is
> significant?
>
Read the third paragraph of the "Details" section of help page for
this
function, which you can reach typing:

 > ?wilcox.test