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The point estimates produced by wilcox.test are perverse (not wrong, just brain damaged). The Hodges-Lehmann estimator that goes with the signed rank test is the median of the Walsh averages. The Hodges-Lehmann estimator that goes with the rank sum test is the median of the pairwise differences. wilcox.test agrees except that it uses the following very peculiar definition of "sample

Dear All, I have two simple data samples (no groups or factors, etc.) and would just like to compute the two-sample Wilcoxon Rank Sum test using the wilcox_test function contained in the coin package, which is reportedly better than the regular wilcox.test function because it performs some adjustment for ties. Would anyone know how to craft a script to perform this task? Much appreciated. Janh

Dear R-users, If you use the exact Wilcoxon test in the coin package, I would like make you aware of that SPSS/StatXact MAY perform a round-off before doing their exact Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test (if you ever are unlucky enough not to use R). I have data from two treatments and was surprised to find that SPSS (15 under Windows) and R differed in their p-values (0.167 resp. 0.172). It turns out

Another example: Jerry Friedman's MART is available in R from Salford for the same price as the stand-alone TreeNet, even though they don't advertise it on their web site. Andy > -----Original Message----- > From: rossini at blindglobe.net [mailto:rossini at blindglobe.net] > Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 9:50 PM > To: rhelp > Cc: pralay at cytel.com > Subject: [R]

At JSM, I spent a bit of time with old friends at the Cytel booth (makers of StatXact/LogXact). They were wondering whether it was both feasible and of interest to create a package of the StatXact compute engine for R (to be commercially licensed, not for free!), similar to what they've done for SAS. As far as I know, it's feasible, (this is not the first commercial external package,

I have a question concerning the Wilcoxon signed-rank test, and specifically, which R subroutine I should use for my particular dataset. There are three different commands in R (that I'm aware of) that calculate the Wilcoxon signed-rank test; wilcox.test, wilcox.exact, and wilcoxsign_test. When I run the three commands on the same dataset, I get different p-values. I'm hoping that

Dear List, after updating the exactRanksumTests package I receive a warning that the package is not developed any further and that one should consider the coin package. I don't find the signed rank test in the coin package, only the Wilcoxon Mann Whitney U-Test. I only found a signed rank test in the stats package (wilcox.test) which is able to calculate the exact pvalues but unfortunately

Hi. I'm going to introduce the R-package for a group of medical doctors later this week and is a little confused about there use of a test named "willcoxon-pratt" for testing if the clinical and biochemical markers has decreased significantly after the use of some drugs for a group of patients. Looking into the R-functions I would in R recommand using a matched-pairs Wilcoxon

Hello, can someone please help me with coding a function for a bootstrap WMW test (package boot, R under Windows, version 1.6.2)?

Hi, I'm trying to run a permutation test on paired samples. First I tried the package "exactRankTests": require("exactRankTests") x <- c(1.83,0.50,1.62,2.48,1.68,1.88,1.55,3.06,1.30) y <- c(0.878,0.647,0.598,2.05,1.06,1.29,1.06,3.14,1.29) wilcox.test(x,y,paired = TRUE,alternative = "greater") perm.test(y,x,paired = TRUE,exact = TRUE,alternative =

Full_Name: Patrick Hodgson Version: 2.0 OS: solaris 2.9 Submission from: (NULL) (65.94.128.161) The value reported for the parameter W in the function wilcox.exact appears to be incorrect. I have checked the reference in the help file for this function (Myles & Hollander 1973, as well as 2nd ed. 1999 by same authors) and it is clear that W is the sum of the ranks of the data set with the

Given the following data, and hypothesized median M.0 I've found a method to implement the Wilcoxon signed-rank test. Data: (with one zero difference and tied ranks) x <- c(136, 103, 91, 122, 96, 145, 140, 138, 126, 120, 99, 125, 91,142, 119, 137) M.0 <- 119 > library(exactRankTests) Package ?exactRankTests? is no longer under development. Please consider using package ?coin?

When I use wilcox.test, I get vastly different p-values than the problems from Statistics textbooks. For example: The following problem comes from "Applied Statistics and Probability for Engineers", 2nd Edition, by D. C. Montgomery. Page736, problem 14.7. The problem is to compare the sample data with a population median of 8.5. The book answer is p = 0.25, wilcox.test answer is p =

This is my first post to the mailing list and I guess it's a pretty stupid question but I can't figure it out. I hope this is the right forum for these kind of questions. Before I started using R I was using STATA to run a Wilcoxon signed-rank test on two variables. See data below:

Hi, In the exactRankTest package, I've become aware that you can get anomalous p-values (i.e., above 1) from the wilcox.exact method, as in: > wilcox.exact(c(-0.6,0.8,-0.5)) Exact Wilcoxon signed rank test data: c(-0.6, 0.8, -0.5) V = 3, p-value = 1.25 alternative hypothesis: true mu is not equal to 0 This is disturbing. Has anyone encountered this before, and if so

Full_Name: David Wooff Version: 1.7.0 OS: i686-pc-linux-gnu Submission from: (NULL) (129.234.4.10) wilcox.test exits with error message when confidence interval required, under some situations. I suspect this occurs when the data contain a zero and for some data lengths only: print(wilcox.test(c(2,1,4,3,6,-5,0),conf.int=T)) fails print(wilcox.test(c(2,1,4,3,6,-5,0,1),conf.int=T)) works

Hello, Writing to share some things I've found about wilcox.test() that seem a a bit inconsistent. 1. Inf values are not removed if paired=TRUE # returns different results (Inf is removed): wilcox.test(c(1,2,3,4), c(0,9,8,7)) wilcox.test(c(1,2,3,4), c(0,9,8,Inf)) # returns the same result (Inf is left as value with highest rank): wilcox.test(c(1,2,3,4), c(0,9,8,7), paired=TRUE)

I frequently want to test for differences between animal size frequency distributions. The obvious test (I think) to use is the Kolmogorov-Smirnov two sample test (provided in R as the function ks.test in package ctest). The KS test is for continuous variables and this obviously includes length, weight etc. However, limitations in measuring (e.g length to the nearest cm/mm, weight to the nearest

Hi, I am running the following example which can be found on page 12 of the pdf file of COIN package wt<-wilcox_test(pd~age,data=water_transfer,distribution="exact", conf.int=TRUE) "wt" actually contains the estimate of difference in location and the confidence interval of it. I am just wondering how can I extract these values? From the examples, I understand that the

Does anyone know why wilcox.exact gives W-statistic 6 instead of 12 as indicated below. 12 is the rank sum of group 0 of x, which is the linear statistic computed by wilcox_test. y<-c(1,2,3,4,5) x<-c(1,1,0,0,0) (a) wilcox.exact wilcox.exact(y~x) Exact Wilcoxon rank sum test data: y by x W = 6, p-value = 0.2 alternative hypothesis: true mu is not equal to 0 (b) wilcox_test