[R] Data analysis: normal approximation for binomial

[Joshua Wiley]

Hi,

I am not clear what your goal is.  There is a variety of data there.
You could look at t-test differences in preIntensity broken down by
sex, you could use regression looking at postIntensity controlling for
preIntensity and explained by age, you could....

Why are you analyzing data from an article?  What did the article do?
What you mention---some sort of z statistic (what exactly this was of
and how it should be calculated did not seem like was clear even to
you), histogram, t-test, lattice, are all very different things that
help answer different questions, show different things, and in one is
a piece of software.

Without a clearer question and goal, my best advice is here are a
number of different functions some of which may be useful to you:

ls(pos = "package:stats")

Cheers,

Josh

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Colstat <colstat at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear R experts,
>
> I am trying to analyze data from an article, the data looks like this
>
> Patient Age Sex Aura preCSM preFreq preIntensity postFreq postIntensity
> postOutcome
> 1 47 F A 4 6 9 2 8 SD
> 2 40 F A/N 5 8 9 0 0 E
> 3 49 M N 5 8 9 2 6 SD
> 4 40 F A 5 3 10 0 0 E
> 5 42 F N 5 4 9 0 0 E
> 6 35 F N 5 8 9 12 7 NR
> 7 38 F A 5 NA 10 2 9 SD
> 8 44 M A 4 4 10 0 0 E
> 9 47 M A 4 5 8 2 7 SD
> 10 53 F A 5 3 10 0 0 E
> 11 41 F N 5 6 7 0 0 E
> 12 49 F A 4 6 8 0 0 E
> 13 48 F A 5 4 8 0 0 E
> 14 63 M N 4 6 9 15 9 NR
> 15 58 M N 5 9 7 2 8 SD
> 16 53 F A 4 3 9 0 0 E
> 17 47 F N 5 4 8 1 4 SD
> 18 34 F A NA  5 9 0 0 E
> 19 53 F N 5 4 9 5 7 NR
> 20 45 F N 5 5 8 5 4 SD
> 21 30 F A 5 3 8 0 0 E
> 22 29 F A 4 5 9 0 0 E
> 23 49 F N 5 9 10 0 0 E
> 24 24 F A 5 5 9 0 0 E
> 25 63 F N 4 19 7 10 7 NR
> 26 62 F A 5 8 9 11 9 NR
> 27 44 F A 5 3 10 0 0 E
> 28 38 F N 4 8 10 1 3 SD
> 29 38 F N 5 3 10 0 0 E
>
> How do I do a binomial distribution z statistics with continuity
> correction? basically normal approximation.
> Could anyone give me some suggestions what I (or R) can do with these data?
> I have tried tried histogram, maybe t-test? or even lattice?  what else can
> I(or can R) do?
> help please, thanks so much.
>
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Joshua Wiley
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