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Dear all, I have a discrete distribution showing how age is distributed across a population using a certain set of bands: Age <- matrix(c(74045062, 71978405, 122718362, 40489415), ncol=1, dimnames=list(c("<18", "18-34", "35-64", "65+"),c())) Age_dist <- Age/sum(Age) For example I know that 23.94% of all people are between 0-18 years, 23.28%

Dear all, I'm currently running R on my laptop -- a Lenovo Thinkpad X201 (Intel Core i7 CPU, M620, 2.67 Ghz, 8 GB RAM). The problem is that some of my calculations run for several days sometimes even weeks (mainly simulations over a large parameter space). Depending on the external conditions, my laptop sometimes shuts down due to overheating. I'm now thinking about buying a more

Dear all, I would like to solve a problem similar to a multiple knapsack problem and am looking for a function in R that can help me. Specifically, my situation is as follows: I have a list of n items which I would like to allocate to m groups with fixed size. Each item has a certain profit value and this profit depends on the type of group the item is in. My problem is to allocate the items

Dear R users, I have a problem for which my objective function depends on both discrete and continuous arguments. The problem is that the number of combinations for the (multivariate) discrete arguments can become overwhelming (when it is univariate this is not an issue) hence search over the continuous arguments for each possible combination of the discrete arguments may not be feasible. Guided

Dear all, I'm running a coxph model of the form: coxph(Surv(Start, End, Death.ID) ~ x1 + x2 + a1 + a2 + a3) Within this model, I would like to compare the influence of x1 and x2 on the hazard rate. Specifically I am interested in testing whether the estimated coefficient for x1 is equal (or not) to the estimated coefficient for x2. I was thinking of using a Chow-test for this but the Chow

What's the reommended way, in R, to determine the strength of association between a discrete variable and a continuous variable? Yes, I have read the manuals, trawled the archives, &c.

I have data that plots over time with four different variables. I would like to combine them in one plot using facet_grid, where each variable gets its own sub-plot. The following code resembles my data require(ggplot2) require(reshape2) subm <- melt(economics, id='date', c('psavert','uempmed','unemploy')) mcsm <- melt(data.frame(date=economics$date,

Dear all, I am trying to simulate a series of networks that have characteristics similar to real life social networks. Specifically I am interested in networks that have (a) a reasonable degree of clustering (as measured by the transitivity function in igraph) and (b) a reasonable degree of degree polarization (as measured by the average degree of the top 10% nodes with highest degree divided by

Dear all, is there a convenient way to determine the effect size for a regression coefficient in a multiple regression model? I have a model of the form lm(y ~ A*B*C*D) and would like to determine Cohen's f2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_size) for each predictor without having to do it manually. Thanks, Michael Michael Haenlein Associate Professor of Marketing ESCP Europe Paris,

Dear all, I'm struggling with predicting "expected time until death" for a coxph and survreg model. I have two datasets. Dataset 1 includes a certain number of people for which I know a vector of covariates (age, gender, etc.) and their event times (i.e., I know whether they have died and when if death occurred prior to the end of the observation period). Dataset 2 includes another

I have a number of x, y observations (Time, Conc) for a number of Subjects (with subject number Subj) and Doses. I can plot the individual points with xyplot fine: xyplot(Conc ~ Time | Subj, Groups=Dose, data=myData, panel = function(x,y) { panel.xyplot(x, y) panel.superpose(???) # Needs more here } ) I also like to plot on

Dear all, I'm using a while loop in the context of an iterative optimization procedure. Within my while loop I have a counter variable that helps me to determine how long the loop has been running. Before the loop I initialize it as counter <- 0 and the last condition within my loop is counter <- counter + 1. I'd like to print out the current status of "counter" while the

Dear all, I am running a simulation in which I randomly generate a series of vectors to test whether they fulfill a certain condition. In most cases, there is no problem. But from time to time, the (randomly) generated vectors are too large for my system and I get the error message: "Cannot allocate vector of size x". The problem is that in those cases my simulation stops and I have to

Dear all, I'm working with two data frames. The first frame (agg_data) consists of two columns. agg_data[,1] is a unique ID for each row and agg_data[,2] contains a continuous variable. The second data frame (geo_data) consists of several columns. One of these columns (geo_data$ZCTA) corresponds to the unique ID in the first data frame. The problem is that only a subset of the unique ID

Dear all, I would like to run a simple regression model y~x1+x2+x3+... The problem is that I have a lot of independent variables (xi) -- around one hundred -- and that some of them are categorical with a lot of categories (like, for example, ZIP code). One straightforward way would be to (a) transform all categorical variables into 1/0 dummies and (b) enter all the variables into an lm model.

Dear all, I'm working with a code that consists of two parts: In Part 1 I'm generating a random graph using the igraph library (which represents the relationships between different nodes) and a vector (which represents a certain characteristic for each node): library(igraph) g <- watts.strogatz.game(1,100,5,0.05) z <- rlnorm(100,0,1) In Part 2 I'm iteratively changing the

Dear all, This is probably more related to statistics than to [R] but I hope someone can give me an idea how to solve it nevertheless: Assume I have a variable y that is a function of x: y=f(x). I know the average value of y for different intervals of x. For example, I know that in the interval[0;x1] the average y is y1, in the interval [x1;x2] the average y is y2 and so forth. I would like to

Is there a package that will allow me to fit Brownian motion and Ornstein?Uhlenbeck models of evolution for discrete traits? I know that geiger and ouch have commands for fitting these models for continuous traits, but these aren't suitable for discrete trait evolution, correct? -- View this message in context:

Hi all, I am REALLY confused with the variance right now. for a discrete uniform distribution on [1,12] the mean is (1+12)/2=6.5 which is ok. y=1:12 mean(y) then var(y) gives me 13 1- on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_distribution_%28discrete%29 wiki the variance is (12^2-1)/12=143/12 2-

Hello, I am using the mda package and in particular the fda routine to classify in term of gear a set of 20 trips. I preformed a flexible discriminant analysis (FDA) using a set of 151 trips. FDAT1 <- fda(as.factor(gear) ~ . , data =matrizR) A total of 22 predictors were considered. 20 of the predictors are "numeric" and 2 are "factors/discrete". The resulting FDA