On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Kevin W <kw.statr at gmail.com> wrote:
My view from the sidelines.... I think you have done the right thing to include a patch, but you have provided no justification for the patch in terms of why it would be useful. Sincerely, Kevin
Ah, I see. I thought it was obvious. I think users should be able to easily know the standard error when they do t.tests. People who do t-tests sometimes need to discuss their findings, and the standard error may be an important consideration. While one can (of course) recover the standard error by doing some division, it is inconvenient and, at least in the classroom, on the border of tedious. We allow regression printouts with several layers of redundant information-- b se t p We should not make it difficult for users to discern the standard error that is actually used in the t.test procedure? pj
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