[R] p-Value

Daniel Lakeland dlakelan at street-artists.org
Mon Aug 27 17:13:00 CEST 2007


On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 11:49:19AM +0500, amna khan wrote:
> Hi Sir
> 
> When we use Kendall Package to obtain Kendall's Tau statistic.
> Then we also get two-sided p value. What does "two-sided p-value" mean?
> The word "two-sided" is confusing to understand.

Two-sided is sometimes also called two-tailed... It refers to the
probability if being farther away from 0 than the observed value *in
either direction*


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