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Hello List, I'm trying to prepare some lecture notes on non parametric methods, and I can't manually reproduce the results of the wilcox.test function for ordinal data. The data I'm using are from David Howell's website, available here http://www.uvm.edu/~dhowell/StatPages/More_Stuff/OrdinalChisq/OrdinalChiSq.html If I run the wilcox.test function on the data I get a p-value of .0407, but when I do it myself I get a p-value of 0.0530. It's not so much the jump across 0.05, but the fact that I thought I knew what the function was doing. I know from the R help page that th...

Running "rake stats" shows validates_presence_of :stuff, :more_stuff, :yet_more_stuff As two lines of code (LOC). I think it should be one line of code, since it''s one statement. An easy way to do that would be to not count the lines with a comma at the end. Joe

Has anyone actually gotten the activerecord-sybase-adapter to work in Rails2? I can''t seem to, and can''t figure out why. I am on RedHat linux. I have the sybase client libraries installed, I have the adapter installed. After installing the patch at https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994-ruby-on-rails/tickets/2455-update-for-sybase_adapter#ticket-2455-4 to get a slightly