[R-sig-eco] evaulating multiple responses using Chi-square

[Steve Brewer]

Thanks Phillip
That's helpful. I hadn't thought about the one-tailed aspect of it. The
idea came from path analysis, wherein the goodness-of-fit test is a sum of
the chi squares for the unspecified paths. I'll look into this further.

Steve


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On 6/11/15 6:32 AM, "Dixon, Philip M [STAT]" <pdixon at iastate.edu> wrote:

>Yes, the idea has been considered, by no less than RA Fisher.  If you
>want a name, it is sometimes known as Fisher's combined probability test.
> Usually applied to one-sided tests of the same null hypothesis.   Yes,
>the p-values can come from different "sources".  Before using it in the
>community context, I would want to think carefully about what it tells me
>when applied to two-sided tests of different species.
>
>Philip
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