Ansari-Bradley test (PR#2252)

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Full_Name: Wei Xu
Version: 1.5.1
OS: WindowsME
Submission from: (NULL) (63.215.238.92)


The P-value for a two.sided test is not consistent with the confidence
interval.
For example, P-value=0.1372, but the 95% CI doesn't include the H0 value(1).

> x
 [1] 0.80 0.83 1.89 1.04 1.45 1.38 1.91 1.64 0.73 1.46
> y
[1] 1.15 0.88 0.90 0.74 1.21
> ansari.test(x,y,alternative="two.sided",conf.int=TRUE,conf.level=0.95)

        Ansari-Bradley test

data:  x and y 
AB = 36, p-value = 0.1372
alternative hypothesis: true ratio of scales is not equal to 1 
95 percent confidence interval:
 1.081081 2.581081 
sample estimates:
ratio of scales 
       1.972973 


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