R help - Oct 2004 - sample variogram construction

Hi

Im attempting to build a sample variogram for 300 obersvations
of longitudinal data. So what I need to do is compute the half 
squared differences  between pairs of residuals (for instance
if a subject has 4 obersvations, this is 4 choose 2 paird differences)
for each subject.
Also, then I need the corresponding time differences within each
individual. So the end result will be a 300 by 2 matrix with
columns corresponding to paired difference residuals within subject
and time differences within subject.
Basically im having trouble coding this kind of matrix in R,
if anyone can help me out or give me some tips id appreciate it.

Thanks.
Stuck in the for loop
student

Hi Matt,

there are several R packages that will compute the sample variogram for you.
Check out GeoR, sgeostat, nlme, spatial. There's no point in recoding the
whole lot yourself, unless as a learning excercise.

D

p.s. For time series autocorrelations, you could use acf in package stats.

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Hi

Im attempting to build a sample variogram for 300 obersvations of
longitudinal data. So what I need to do is compute the half 
squared differences  between pairs of residuals (for instance if a subject
has 4 obersvations, this is 4 choose 2 paird differences) for each subject.
Also, then I need the corresponding time differences within each individual.
So the end result will be a 300 by 2 matrix with columns corresponding to
paired difference residuals within subject and time differences within
subject. Basically im having trouble coding this kind of matrix in R, if
anyone can help me out or give me some tips id appreciate it.

Thanks.
Stuck in the for loop
student