[R] Randomization tests, grouped data

[Johannes Hüsing]

Tom Backer Johnsen <backer at psych.uib.no> [Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 06:57:41PM CET]:
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> > Are there something that can handle this in R?
> 

Have you considered the coin package? 

> After a few hours thinking on and off about the problem, I suspect 
> that the question may be stupid or silly (or both).  If that is the 
> case, I would very much like to know why.
> 

I am not quite clear in my thinking anymore, but there are 2^2n 
permutations, of which (2n choose n) happen to yield the same 
effect. These cases are "part of life" and should be counted in
the permutation test just as well. You might save a little bit of
computation time by singling these group-preserving permutations
out, but this is not worth the while at all. 

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