Hi everyone, I need help in writing a statistical function for bootstrap. Suppose m is a matrix with n cols and p rows, my original data. What I want to do is a bootstrap (using boot from package boot) on eigenvectors from a PCA done on m with a statistic function calculating the eigenvector bootstrap error ratio. If R = number of bootstrap replicates, then my function should look something like this where m.i is the ith bootstrap sample matrix (of course this is wrong, but I wrote it to give an idea of what I am after) pcasig <- function(m) { for (i in 1:R) { pca.i <- prcomp(m.i) eigen.i <- pca.i$rotation estim <- sum(eigen.1+….+eigen.R) / R a <- matrix(estim, p, n) se <- ((sum((eigen.i-estim)^2))/(R-1))^0.5 t.i <- a / se } } Thanks for your consideration, Monica _________________________________________________________________ Your smile counts. The more smiles you share, the more we donate. Join in. www.windowslive.com/smile?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_Wave2_oprsmilewlhmtagline [[alternative HTML version deleted]]