Em S?b, 2008-07-19 ?s 11:07 -0300, Thiago Souza
escreveu:> Hi folks!
>
> I'm a beginner and I'm learning how to use R.
>
> I need to calculate the value of Simpson Diversity Index (*D*=1-?*pi*^2;
> where *p* is the relative abundance of the species* i*) of one sample
(e.g.,
> diversity of bromeliad spiders) and test the significance of this value.
For
> this I'll need to randomize samples while conserving the observed
species
> abundance and sample-size distributions. After this, in need to repeate
> these randomizations 10.000 times to form a null distribution and assessing
> the statistical significance by compare the observad D value with the null
> distribution.
> But unfortunately, I don't know how to run this procedure in R
software.
>
> Please, can anybody help me?
>
> Thank you in advance
>
Thiago,
If I understood your problem do you solve using sample, look this
example
data<-rep(letters[1:6],10)
sample<-sample (data,10)
sample
table(sample)
sample<-sample (data,10)
sample
table(sample)
For repeat the sample using "for"
for (i in 1:10000){
commands
}
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Bernardo Rangel Tura, M.D,MPH,Ph.D
National Institute of Cardiology
Brazil