[R] [FORGED] Re: Issue with t.test

Rolf Turner r@turner @end|ng |rom @uck|@nd@@c@nz
Tue Mar 12 21:38:24 CET 2019


On 13/03/19 9:06 AM, Greg Snow wrote:

<SNIP>

> The only time I have seen t.test give a p-value of 1 is when the
> data mean exactly equals the null hypothesis mean and the alternative
> is the default of two.sided.

<SNIP>

Doesn't have to be *exact* equality.  Just close!

E.g.:

set.seed(42)
x <- runif(10)
mew <- 0.63626
mew==mean(x) # FALSE
t.test(x,mu=mew)

cheers,

Rolf

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