Re: [Rd] Spearman's rank correlation test (PR#13574)

2009-05-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Petr Savicky wrote: Bug report "Spearman's rank correlation test (PR#13574)" was moved to trashcan with empty Notes field. I would like to learn, what was wrong with this bug report. Can i ask the developers to add a note to it? The move was not intended: JitterBug does so

Re: [Rd] Spearman's rank correlation test (PR#13574)

2009-05-15 Thread Petr Savicky
Bug report "Spearman's rank correlation test (PR#13574)" was moved to trashcan with empty Notes field. I would like to learn, what was wrong with this bug report. Can i ask the developers to add a note to it? Thank you in advance. Petr. __ R-devel@r-pr

[Rd] Spearman's rank correlation test (PR#13574)

2009-03-05 Thread savicky
Full_Name: Petr Savicky Version: 2.7.2, 2.8.1, 2.9.0 OS: Linux Submission from: (NULL) (147.231.6.9) The p-value of Spearman's rank correlation test is calculated in cor.test(x, y, method="spearman") using algorithm AS 89. However, the way how AS 89 is used incures error, which may be an order

[Rd] Spearman's rank correlation test

2009-02-12 Thread Petr Savicky
Hi All: help(cor.test) claims For Spearman's test, p-values are computed using algorithm AS 89. Algorithm AS 89 was introduced by the paper D. J. Best & D. E. Roberts (1975), Algorithm AS 89: The Upper Tail Probabilities of Spearman's rho. Applied Statistics, Vol. 24, No. 3, 377-379. Table