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Hi, Consider the Nottingham temperature and the Sunspot data: >data(nottem) >data(sunspot) Assume that we may model each data set by a nonparametic autoregressice model of the form Yt = m(Yt-1) +et, What are the value of x and y for using function ksmooth(x,y,"normal",bandwidth=0.01)? Thanks a lot! Owen

Hello All, I posted a similar question before, but the direction was driven to whether my case is suitable for a wilcoxon test. After research about the appropriateness, I am pretty sure that a wilcoxon test is the right tool for my case. But how to compute the power of the test is still an unanswered question bothering me. The basic stats of my two paired samples are: mean1 = 0.0032, sd1 =