Am 23.09.2008 um 23:57 schrieb Peter Dalgaard: > For this kind of problem I'd go directly for the binomial > distribution. If the actual probability is 0, this is essentially > deterministic and you can look at > > > binom.test(0,99,p=.03, alt="less") >
> This means that you don't sample from the p=.03 population? > Note that there is a 5 per cent chance to have 0 failures in 99 > trials with p=.03. In this case I am given the p=.03 as static value. So my goal is to compare the sample statistic against that. I am essentially checking the real population against an a-priori hypothesis of p=.03 or rather whatever we set it at (long story). Collin. ______________________________________________ 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.