Re: st: m stat for sign test

[Richard Goldstein <richgold@ix.netcom.com>]

this information is saved by Stata as part of standard practice -- to 
see what is saved type -return li- after you run -signtest- or look at 
the help file or the manual

Rich

Chris Witte wrote:
> The excerpt below is taken from SAS's help.  This is what I would like in addition to the p-value:
>
> Sign Test
>
> PROC UNIVARIATE calculates the sign test statistic as 
>
> M=(n+ -n- )/2 
>
> where n+ is the number of values that are greater than mu_o and n- is the number of values that are less than mu_o. Values equal to mu_o are discarded. Under the null hypothesis that the population median is equal to mu_o
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