[R] chi-Squared distribution in Friedman test

[Spencer Graves]

Easy:  First letter

      "d" = density,
      "p" = probability = cumulative distribution function (cdf),
      "q" = quantile = inverse cdf,
      "r" = pseudo-random number generation. 

      This is in, for example, "An Introduction to R".  Are you familiar 
with "help.start()"?  From an R command prompt (at least with recent 
versions under Windows), this opens a web browser with a page offering 
"manuals", "reference", and "Miscellaneous Material".  "An Intro to R" 
is in the upper left.  "Probability Distributions" is section 8. 

      hope this helps.  spencer graves

Prasanna Balaprakash wrote:

>Dear R helpers:
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>Thanks for the previous reply. I am using Friedman racing test. According the the book "Pratical Nonprametric Statistic" by WJ Conover, after computing the statistics, he suggested to use chi-squared or F distribution to accept or reject null hypothesis. After looking into the source code, I found that R uses chi-sqaured distribution as below:
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>but still I cant figure out why they are using this pschisq insted of dchisq. Sorry I am wrong!!
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>Thanking you
>truly
>Prasanna
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>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "Dimitris Rizopoulos" <dimitris.rizopoulos at med.kuleuven.ac.be>
>>To: "Prasanna Balaprakash" <pbalapra at ulb.ac.be>
>>Cc: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
>>Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 1:05 PM
>>Subject: Re: [R] chi-Squared distribution
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>>>if you check ?qchisq, you'll see that the second
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>>My mistake, the third argument
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>>>argument of the function denotes the non-centrality parameter! Try
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>>>qchisq(0.75, 1:3)
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>>>to get your answer.
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>>>Best,
>>>Dimitris
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>>>----
>>>Dimitris Rizopoulos
>>>Ph.D. Student
>>>Biostatistical Centre
>>>School of Public Health
>>>Catholic University of Leuven
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>>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>>From: "Prasanna Balaprakash" <pbalapra at ulb.ac.be>
>>>To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
>>>Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 12:27 PM
>>>Subject: [R] chi-Squared distribution
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>>>>Dear Rs:
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>>>>outer(1:3, 1:3, function(df1, df2) qf(0.95, df1, df2))
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>>>>I compare this F distribution results with the table, the answers 
>>>>were perfect. But I need to see for chi-sqaured distribution. When 
>>>>I employed the similar formula
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>>>>outer(1:3, 1:3, function(df1, df2) qchisq(0.95, df1, df2)) , I am 
>>>>getting unexpected results. I need to see the following values:
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>>>>    p=0.750  .....
>>>>1     1.323
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>>>>2     2.773
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>>>>3     4.108
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>>>>Thanking you
>>>>Prasanna
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>>>>Prasanna Balaprakash,
>>>>Université Libre de Bruxelles,
>>>>50, Av. F. Roosevelt, CP 194/6,
>>>>B-1050 Brussels,
>>>>Belgium.
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