[R] suggestion for proportions

[John Sorkin]

>From you description, you should not used a paired Student's t-test. One uses a paired test when pairs of observations come from the same experimental unit (and thus are correlated). You describe a study where each experimental unit is tested once and where there are two independent groups of experimental units. Look at t.test (i.e. enter ?t.test).
John

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>>> array chip <arrayprofile at yahoo.com> 9/7/2011 4:11 AM >>>
Hi, I am wondering if anyone can suggest how to test the equality of 2 proportions. The caveat here is that the 2 proportions were calculated from the same number of samples using 2 different tests. So essentially we are comparing 2 accuracy rates from same, say 100, samples. I think this is like a paired test, but don't know if really we need to consider the "paired" nature of the data, and if yes then how? Or just use prop.test() to compare 2 proportions?

Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

John

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