bug ? wilcox() (PR#243)

Peter Dalgaard BSA p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk
09 Aug 1999 18:45:39 +0200


ATurpin@discoveriesinsight.org writes:

> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am getting a strange result from the wilcox function in the code below.
> > This code has worked for many other wilcox's, but not this particular one.
> > The p-value printed should be much higher (consistent with the p-value
> > for the t-test).
> > 
> > I am using R Version 0.64.2 under Debian Linux.
> > 
> > I hope it is not me being stupid...

This *was* a bug in older versions of ctest. Your example has a huge
number of cases with x==y and the test was based on 

	STATISTIC <- sum(r[x > 0])

(x being x-y at that stage) 

The current version at CRAN removes the zeros first...

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