[R] binom.test & p-value

[Sigbert Klinke]

Hi,

for the specific example binom.test(x=6, n=26, p=0.1) I get as p-value 
0.03986. The default approach to decide whether I can reject the null or 
or not is to compare the p-value with the given significance level. 
Using a significance level of 0.05 this will lead to reject the null 
hypothesis.

However, computing things by hand it turned out that the critical values 
are 0 and 6. Since the test statistic is also 6 I can not reject the 
null hypothesis.

I found the discussion under 
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2009-February/380341.html and I 
understand that a p-value is not well defined if we have a asymmmetric 
(discrete) distribution under the null.

At least I would have expected some hint in the documentation for 
binom.test.

Sigbert

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