[R] exact conditional mantelhaen.test estimate is 0 ?!

[f.hahne@dkfz-heidelberg.de]

Thanks for the quick answer, that's what I was thinking too. Just wasn't sure
wether this was a bug or a matter of computations becoming singular.
Florian

> On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Florian Hahne wrote:
> 
> > Dear listers,
> >
> > I am trying to compute the exact conditional test given strata margins
> > of a 2 by 2 by K array using the mantelhaen.test function to get a
> > common odds ratio estimate.
> > The estimate for the test on the following data is 0, which in my
> > opinion dosen't make any sense.
> >
> 
> Indeed it doesn't.  Some probabilities are underflowing to zero.  It is 
> informative to look at the estimates from
>     mantelhaen.test(round(x/s), exact=TRUE)
> for various values of s.  The estimate is stable at about 0.04 for 
> large s until s gets to just above 1.8, then quickly decreases to zero.
> 
> I think you need exact=FALSE for data sets this large.
> 
>  	-thomas
>