[R] Degrees of freedom etc- Fisher's

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Mon Sep 14 15:09:47 CEST 2009


On Sep 14, 2009, at 6:02 AM, Breach, Katherine wrote:

> Hi
>
> When I run a Chi squared test in R I am automatically given the chi  
> squared value and the degrees of freedom. How do I find these values  
> when i've used Fisher's exact test?
>

The function fisher.test uses hypergeometric distribution functions,  
so it's not surprising that it does not report a chi-squared estimate.

> -- 

David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT




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