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simple maths question
2 messages · Georg Ehret, Ben Bolker
Georg Ehret <georgehret <at> gmail.com> writes:
Hi Mrs & Ms "R",
A simple maths question that I am trying to resolve with R: I need to
calculate the SE from a pvalue and it's beta... How to do this...?
Thank you very much and best regards!
Georg Ehret, Geneva, Switzerland.
Without more information, I don't think you can. **If** you are assuming a Z test (i.e. the thing you are testing against a null hypotheses H_0=0 is supposed to be normally distributed) then you know that p-value = 2*pnorm(abs(beta/SE),lower.tail=FALSE) [based on a two-tailed test] and you can use qnorm() to invert this, but you can't separate beta and SE.