[R] wilcoxon-pratt signed rank test in R - drug-effiacy

[Niels Steen Krogh]

Hi.
I'm going to introduce the R-package for a group of medical doctors later 
this week and is a little confused about there use of a test named 
"willcoxon-pratt"  for testing if the clinical and biochemical markers has 
decreased significantly after the use of some drugs for a group of patients.

Looking into the R-functions I would in R recommand using a matched-pairs 
Wilcoxon test with a formula like:
wilcox.test(pre,post,alternative='greater',paired=T)

Looking deeper into the writings of Pratt I found some 1964-stuff "Pratt JW. 
Remarks on zeros and ties in the Wilcoxon signed rank procedures.  
J.Americ.Statistical Assoc. 1959; 54: 655-67. "

Do'es any of you know what is the wilcoxon-pratt test compared with the 
formula described above and how it should be implemented in R.

Thanks in advance

/Niels

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