Aliases: mcnemar.test
Keywords: htest
### ** Examples ## Agresti (1990), p. 350. ## Presidential Approval Ratings. ## Approval of the President's performance in office in two surveys, ## one month apart, for a random sample of 1600 voting-age Americans. Performance <- matrix(c(794, 86, 150, 570), nrow = 2, dimnames = list("1st Survey" = c("Approve", "Disapprove"), "2nd Survey" = c("Approve", "Disapprove"))) Performance
2nd Survey 1st Survey Approve Disapprove Approve 794 150 Disapprove 86 570
mcnemar.test(Performance)
McNemar's Chi-squared test with continuity correction data: Performance McNemar's chi-squared = 16.818, df = 1, p-value = 4.115e-05
## => significant change (in fact, drop) in approval ratings