Re: rtest

From: Dennis Shea <shea_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 17:19:21 -0700 (MST)

> I am confused about the rtest documentation. According to the
>description, if return value is smaller than 0.05, the hull hypothesis
>(variables are independent) is rejected at 95% confidence level. But
>according to the following example 1, with return value 0.569, it says:"The
>conclusion is that the null hypothesis is rejected and that there is
>correlation between the two variables". Is it a typo of example 1?

This was a documentation error.

It has been fixed.

http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/rtest.shtml

It now says: "Then prob will be = 0.086. "

THX for calling this to our attention.

D

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