[R] How to get p-values

[John Fox]

Dear Mathias and Peter,

I'm pretty sure that Mathias is looking for the F and t quantile functions, 
which, Mathias, by default return F and t values corresponding to 
cumulative (i.e., left-tail) probabilities. So, for your example,

 > qf(.95, 1, 2)
[1] 18.51282

gives you the F with 1 and 2 df that has an area of .05 to the right. See 
help(qf) and help(qt) for details.

I hope that this helps,
  John


At 12:36 PM 8/5/2002 +0200, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
>Mathias Ditzen <mditzen at zedat.fu-berlin.de> writes:
>
> > Hello all there,
> > I want to reimplement (for my personal, still very limited 
> understanding of
> > statistics) the linear regression. Now how do I get the correct values 
> for F
> > and T distributions (something like F.05[1,2], where 1 and 2 are 
> degrees of
> > freedom)? I tried dt and df, but the values I got were not correct.
> > Thank you very much in advance,
> > Mathias Ditzen
>
>Functions to give p values all start with p: pf and pt. Be careful to
>note that they give the lower tail of the respective distributions. To
>get an upper tail, subtract from 1 (or use lower.tail=FALSE). To get
>two-tailed tests add both tails together (which is often the same as
>multiplying by two).
>
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