Lila86 wrote: > > I have two groups (men and women) and I know per group how many of them > smoke or don't smoke (women 40 of 200; men 100 of 300). I would like to > know how I can compare in R if men and women differ significantly in their > smoking. However, because there are more men in the sample than women I > cannot just compare the number of smokers and non-smokers in both groups, > right?! (I would not really know how to do that either, to be honest :(). >
Read up on contingency tables, and take a look at ?chisq.test. ----- Regards, Richie. Mathematical Sciences Unit HSL -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Comparing-proportions-between-groups-tp16348714p16349007.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
