On 2010-04-08 4:52, Uwe Dippel wrote:
I am studying "Using R for Introductory Statistics" and find it in
general very useful. At present, I am stumbling over the function
simple.median.test.

 > x
[1] 12.8 3.5 2.9 9.4 8.7 0.7 0.2 2.8 1.9 2.8 3.1 15.8
 > simple.median.test (x,median=5)
[1] 0.3876953
 > simple.median.test (x,median=10)
[1] 0.03857422
until here it is identical to the document. Then I played for myself:
 > simple.median.test (x,median=3)
[1] 1.225586
The result is >1 here. Is my interpretation wrong, that the result is a
probability?

That looks like a bug in simple.median.test, due to simply
doubling the one-sided p-value.

 -Peter Ehlers


Uwe

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