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Confidence interval calculation in prop.test (PR#9325)

2 messages · rmjohnston at mac.com, Duncan Murdoch

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rmjohnston at mac.com
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Full_Name: Richard Johnston
Version: 2.4.0
OS: OS X
Submission from: (NULL) (69.169.0.241)


The confidence interval calculation for prop.test appears incorrect when
alternative="greater" .  The upper limit is always set to 1.0000.  The lower
limit appears to be correct.
2-sample test for equality of proportions with continuity correction

data:  success out of total 
X-squared = 7.4289, df = 1, p-value = 0.003209
alternative hypothesis: greater 
95 percent confidence interval:
 0.03693065 1.00000000 
sample estimates:
prop 1 prop 2 
 0.220  0.124
Duncan Murdoch
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On 10/30/2006 8:50 PM, rmjohnston at mac.com wrote:
That looks like a one-sided confidence interval, i.e. an interval of the 
type Delta > 0.0369, where Delta is the difference in proportions.  It 
is then clipped to [-1, 1], since that's the largest possible range for 
the difference.

What were you expecting to see?

Duncan Murdoch