[R] general question on binomial test / sign test

[Kay Cecil Cichini]

i test the null that the coin is fair (p(succ) = p(fail) = 0.5) with  
one trail and get a p-value of 1. actually i want to proof the  
alternative H that the estimate is different from 0.5, what certainly  
can not be aproven here. but in reverse the p-value of 1 says that i  
can 100% sure that the estimate of 0.5 is true (??) - that's the point  
that astonishes me.

thanks if anybody could clarify this for me,
kay

Zitat von Greg Snow <Greg.Snow at imail.org>:

> Try thinking this one through from first principles, you are  
> essentially saying that your null hypothesis is that you are  
> flipping a fair coin and you want to do a 2-tailed test.  You then  
> flip the coin exactly once, what do you expect to happen?  The  
> p-value of 1 just means that what you saw was perfectly consistent  
> with what is predicted to happen flipping a single time.
>
> Does that help?
>
> If not, please explain what you mean a little better.
>
> --
> Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
> Statistical Data Center
> Intermountain Healthcare
> greg.snow at imail.org
> 801.408.8111
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Subject: [R] general question on binomial test / sign test
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>>
>> hello,
>>
>> i did several binomial tests and noticed for one sparse dataset that
>> binom.test(1,1,0.5) gives a p-value of 1 for the null, what i can't
>> quite
>> grasp. that would say that the a prob of 1/2 has p-value of 0 ?? - i
>> must be
>> wrong but can't figure out the right interpretation..
>>
>> best,
>> kay
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> Kay Cichini
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>> Institute of Botany
>> Univ. of Innsbruck
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