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>>>>> Rich Shepard >>>>> on Mon, 22 Jan 2024 07:45:31 -0800 (PST) writes: > A statistical question, not specific to R. I'm asking for > a pointer for a source of definitive descriptions of what > types of data are best summarized by the arithmetic, > geometric, and harmonic means. In spite of off-topic: I think it is a good

A statistical question, not specific to R. I'm asking for a pointer for a source of definitive descriptions of what types of data are best summarized by the arithmetic, geometric, and harmonic means. As an aquatic ecologist I see regulators apply the geometric mean to geochemical concentrations rather than using the arithmetic mean. I want to know whether the geometric mean of a set of

Dear Rich, It depends how the data is generated. Although I am not an expert in ecology, I can explain it based on a biomedical example. Certain variables are generated geometrically (exponentially), e.g. MIC or Titer. MIC = Minimum Inhibitory Concentration for bacterial resistance Titer = dilution which still has an effect, e.g. serially diluting blood samples; Obviously, diluting the

?Dear All I have some data expressed in geometric means and 95% confidence intervals. Can I code them in metafor as: rma(m1i=geometric mean 1, m2i=geometric mean 2, sd1i=geometric mean 1 CI /3.92, sd2i=geometric mean 2 CI/3.92.......etc, measure="MD") All of the studies use geometric means. Thanks! Edward ---------------------------- [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2024, Rich Shepard wrote: > As an aquatic ecologist I see regulators apply the geometric mean to > geochemical concentrations rather than using the arithmetic mean. I want to > know whether the geometric mean of a set of chemical concentrations (e.g., > in mg/L) is an appropriate representation of the expected value. If not, I > want to explain this to non-technical

Is there a function or an easier way to computer geometric means of each rows in a nxn matrix and spit out in an 1xn matrix ? -- Edward Chen [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Folks: I know this may be overreaching, but are we missing what's important? WHY do the zeros occur? Are they values less then a known or unknown LOD? -- and/or is there positive mass on zero? In either case, using logs to calculate a geometric mean may not make sense. Paraphrasing Greg Snow, what is the scientific question? What is the model? Cheers, Bert On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:13 AM,

Hi All, I need to calculate the median for even number of data points.However instead of calculating the arithmetic mean of the two middle values,I need to calculate their geometric mean. Though I can code this in R, possibly in a few lines, but wondering if there is already some built in function. Can somebody give a hint? Thanks in advance [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi, This is my first time posting to the mailing list, so if I'm doing something wrong, just let me know. I've taken ~1000 samples from 8 biological replicates, and I want to somehow combine the density functions of the replicates. Currently, I can plot the density function for each biological replicate, and I'd like to see how pool of replicates compares to a simulation I conducted

Dear list, I have got an array with observational values t and I would like to fit a geometric distribution to it. As I understand the geometric distribution, there is only one parameter, the probability p. I estimated it by 1/mean(t). Now I plotted the estimated density function by plot(ecdf(t),do.points=FALSE,col.h="blue"); and I would like to add the geometric distribution. This

Sorry to prolong a thread on something that is clearly off topic, but when Michael Meyer wrote >by using the geometric mean all asymptotic results no longer apply. that is flat our wrong. It's true that the geometric mean converges to something different that E[X], but it does indeed have an asymptotic distribution and one that makes sense in some contexts. There is no reason that

better posted on r-sig-ecology? -- or maybe even stack exchange? Cheers, Bert On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 7:45?AM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > A statistical question, not specific to R. > > I'm asking for a pointer for a source of definitive descriptions of what > types of data are best summarized by the arithmetic, geometric, and > harmonic >

I want to make a function for geometric seqeunce since testing=function(x){i=1;ans=1;while(true){ans=ans+(1/x)^i ; i=i+1} ;return(ans)} doesn't work... the program is freeze... from my research, i know i should use iterators. I read iterators.pdf at http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/iterators/iterators.pdf and didnt find it helps solving my problem at all... Is there any sources I

Hi, I have been using maxLik to do some MLE of Geometric Brownian Motion Process and everything has been going fine, but know I have tried to do it with jumps. I have create a vector of jumps and then added this into my log-likelihood equation, know I am getting a message: NA in the initial gradient My codes is hear # n<-length(combinedlr) j<-c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10)

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Sahil Sharma <sahilsharmahimalaya at gmail.com> Date: Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 12:10?PM Subject: r-stats: Geometric Distribution To: <do-use-Contact-address at r-project.org> Hey I want to raise one issue in *r-stats **geometric distribution * function. I have found the dgeom(x,p) which denotes probability density function of geometric

By the Strong Law of Large Numbers applied to log(X) the geometric mean of X_1,...,X_n > 0 and IID like X converges toexp(E[log(X)]] which, by Jensen's inequality, is always? <= E[X] and is strictly less than E[X] except in trivial extreme cases. In short: by using the geometric mean all asymptotic results no longer apply. Michael Meyer [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hello, Can anyone think of a non-iterative way to generate a decreasing geometric sequence in R? For example, for a hypothetical function dg, I would like: > dg(20) [1] 20 10 5 2 1 where I am using integer division by 2 to get each subsequent value in the sequence. There is of course: dg <- function(x) { res <- integer() while(x >= 1) { res <- c(res, x) x

Hello folks, I'm seeking opinions about the validity of the following use of the nls function... A colleague and myself are working with tree allometric data consisting of measurements of individual trees in semi-arid Australian woodland species. We need to make predictions of trunk diameter (DBH: diameter at breast height) given tree height and vice versa. I _think_ this falls into the

Dear all, I''m working with the geometric distribution for the time being, and I''m confused. This may have more to do with statistics than R itself, but since I''m getting results from R I find counterintuitive (well, yeah, my statistical intuition has not been properly sharpened), I feel like asking. The point first: If I do > rgeom(1,prob=1) I get: [1] NaN Warning

Hi, With R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26) on Windows, I computed the p=1.e-20 quantile of the geometric distribution with parameter prob=0.1. > qgeom(1.e-20,0.1) [1] -1 But this is not possible, since X=0,1,2,... I guess that this might be a bug in the quantile function, which should use the log1p function, instead of the naive formula. Am I correct ? Best regards, Micha?l