[R] check for difference.

[R. Michael Weylandt]

Lists of numbers of length ~1000 are no problem for the wilcox.test()
function (Mann-Whitney is a special case) if you leave the default
exact = NULL.

The choice of test is all yours.

Michael

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:39 PM, aoife doherty <aaral.singh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
> I have two lists of numbers, each list is ~800 numbers long. I want to know
> if the two lists are significantly different from each other.
> Could anyone suggest what library in R to use?
>
> I think maybe the mann-whitney test, as it is not parametric, but i am
> unsure if it is suitable as my list of items are so long.So i am unsure
> which library would suit best.
>
> Aaral.
>
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