[R] Inverse Student t-value

[(Ted Harding)]

And, with 1221 degrees of freedom, one cannot be far off a Normal
distribution. So:

  abs(qnorm(0.0000408831/2))
  [1] 4.102431

which is nearer to Duncan's answer (4.117, and a bit smaller, as it
should be) than to yours (4.0891672, which, if accurate, should
be greater than the Normal value 4.102431).

Ted.

On 30-Sep-2014 18:20:39 Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 30/09/2014 2:11 PM, Andre wrote:
>> Hi Duncan,
>>
>> No, that's correct. Actually, I have data set below;
> 
> Then it seems Excel is worse than I would have expected.  I confirmed 
> R's value in two other pieces of software,
> OpenOffice and some software I wrote a long time ago based on an 
> algorithm published in 1977 in Applied Statistics.  (They are probably 
> all using the same algorithm.  I wonder what Excel is doing?)
> 
>> N= 1223
>> alpha= 0.05
>>
>> Then
>> probability= 0.05/1223=0.0000408831
>> degree of freedom= 1223-2= 1221
>>
>> So, TINV(0.0000408831,1221) returns 4.0891672
>>
>>
>> Could you show me more detail a manual equation. I really appreciate 
>> it if you may give more detail.
> 
> I already gave you the expression:  abs(qt(0.0000408831/2, df=1221)). 
> For more detail, I suppose you could look at the help page for the qt 
> function, using help("qt").
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 1:01 AM, Duncan Murdoch 
>> <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com <mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 30/09/2014 1:31 PM, Andre wrote:
>>
>>         Dear Sir/Madam,
>>
>>         I am trying to use calculation for two-tailed inverse of the
>>         student`s
>>         t-distribution function presented by Excel functions like
>>         =TINV(probability, deg_freedom).
>>
>>         For instance: The Excel function =TINV(0.0000408831,1221) = 
>>         returns
>>           4.0891672.
>>
>>         Would you like to show me a manual calculation for this?
>>
>>         Appreciate your helps in advance.
>>
>>
>>     That number looks pretty far off the true value.  Have you got a
>>     typo in your example?
>>
>>     You can compute the answer to your question as
>>     abs(qt(0.0000408831/2, df=1221)), but you'll get 4.117.
>>
>>     Duncan Murdoch
>>
>>
>>
> 
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Date: 30-Sep-2014  Time: 19:35:45
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