At 10:54 AM 10/12/2004 -0700, Clement Adebamowo wrote:
>>Hello;
>>I had been wrestling with the Fisher's exact test for
>>a 5 X 4 over the past few days and I can confirm that
>>it was slow. However, I update the executable this
>>afternoon and voila! - a routine that had taken me 2
>>days without posting a result before was now
>>accomplished in minutes!
>>Regards,
>>Clement
>Try following Richard Gates' earlier suggestion to
>"use tables with the number of columns greater than
>the number of rows" (i.e. reverse your variables and
>make it a 4 X 5 table) and see if that goes even
>faster. I think Richard's next assignment should be
>in the area of space/time travel or something like
>that!
Age | Status
Groups | Excellent Very Good Good Fair Poor |
Total
-----------+-------------------------------------------------------+--------
--
65-70 | 29 41 44 3 0 |
117
70-74 | 20 50 45 5 1 |
121
74-78 | 19 44 51 7 0 |
121
78-95 | 9 38 56 12 0 |
115
-----------+-------------------------------------------------------+--------
--
Total | 77 173 196 27 1 |
474
exceeded memory limits using exact(1); try again with larger #; see help
tabulate for details
r(911);
If I click on r(911), I get an error window that states - No entries found
for search on "r(911)"
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