UsingR: simple.median.test – R documentation

Become an expert in R — Interactive courses, Cheat Sheets, certificates and more!

simple.median.test

Do simple sign test for median – no ranks

Do simple sign test like wilcox.test without ranking. Just computes two-sided p-value, no confidence interval is given.

simple.median.test(x, median=NA)

`x`	A data vector
`median`	The value of median under the null hyptohesis

Unlike wilcox.test, this tests the null hypothesis that the median is specified agains the two-sided alternative. For illustration purposes only.

Returns the p value.

John Verzani

x<-c(12,2,17,25,52,8,1,12)
simple.median.test(x,20)

Data Sets, Etc. for the Text "Using R for Introductory Statistics", Second Edition

v2.0-6

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

John Verzani <verzani@math.csi.cuny.edu>

Initial release