[R] calculating t-score/t-stats as my zscores

[Patrick (Malone Quantitative)]

Guessing for Ana, but no, that's a different meaning. Beta/StdErr is a
z statistic--a test statistic against (usually) the tails of the unit
normal distribution. So like a t-test with infinite df.


On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 10:41 AM Rui Barradas <ruipbarradas using sapo.pt> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> By z-scores do you mean function help('scale')?
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Rui Barradas
>
> Às 15:31 de 06/05/20, Ana Marija escreveu:
> > Hi Rui,
> >
> > Thank you for getting back to me. Is there is a better way to
> > calculate Z scores if I have p values, SE and Beta?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ana
> >
> > On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 9:27 AM Rui Barradas <ruipbarradas using sapo.pt> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> That gives the *absolute* t-scores. If it's all you need/want, then the
> >> answer is yes, you can.
> >>
> >> Hope this helps,
> >>
> >> Rui Barradas
> >>
> >> Às 14:28 de 06/05/20, Ana Marija escreveu:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> Can I apply the quantile function qt() this way?
> >>> qt(pvals/2, 406-34, lower.tail = F)
> >>> to get the T-scores?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>> Ama
> >>>
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