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Hi, I've estimated a simple kernel density of a univariate variable with density(), but after I would like to find out the CDF at specific values. How can I do it? thanks for your help, with it I am very close to finish my first little bit more serious work in R, Viktor

I have written the following function to calculate the weighted mean difference for univariate data (see http://www.xycoon.com/gini_mean_difference.htm for a related formula). Unsurprisingly, the function is slow (compared to sd or mad) for long vectors. I wonder if there's a way to make the function faster, short of creating an external C function. Thanks very much for your advice. gmd

In the document "R Data Import/Export", section "Output to connections", there is the following portion of code: ## convert decimal point to comma in output, using a pipe (Unix) zz <- pipe(paste("sed s/\\./,/ >", "outfile"), "w") cat(format(round(rnorm(100), 4)), sep = "\n", file = zz) close(zz) ## now look at the output

I have justed upgraded R v1.7.0 on Windows NT 4 and have installed the latest RMySQL (version 0.5-1)and DBI (version 0.1-5) packages. When I issue the following commands (tactfully adjusted) R just crashes and disappears, any ideas? require(RMySQL) m <- dbDriver("MySQL") con <- dbConnect(m, dbname="xxx", user="xxx", password="xxx",

Hi all, I'd like to quantize a variable to map it into a limited set of integers for use with a colormap. "image" and filled.contour" do this mapping inside somewhere, but I'd like to choose the colors for plotting a set of polygons. Is there a pre-existing function that does something like this well? i.e., is capable of using 'breaks'?

Hello, How can I obtain the likelihood ratio of a Poisson regression model? Regards. _____________________________________________ dr. Marziliano Ciro Facolta' di Economia Universita' degli Studi di L'Aquila p.zza del Santuario, 19 67040 Roio Poggio, L'Aquila tel.: 0862 434836 fax: 0862 434803

Dear list, Does anyone know how to fit the power law distribution? I have the empirical distribution and would like to check whether it fits the power law (with the power estimated from the data). Any hints are appreciated. Tanks a lot! Galina [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hello... Is it possible to use "density" or another kernel density estimator to identify the mode of a distribution? When I use 'density', the resulting density plot of my data is much cleaner than the original noisy histogram, and I can clearly see the signal that I am interested in. E.g., suppose my data is actually drawn from two or more normal (or other)

Hi R-users,  I have a data from multi skew t and would like to transform each of the data to uniform data.  I tried using 'pmst' but only got one output:   > rr1 <- as.vector(r1);rr1  [1]  0.7207582  5.2250906  1.7422237  0.5677233  0.7473555 -0.6020626 -2.1947872 -1.1128313 -0.6587316 -1.1409261     > pmst(rr1, xi=rep(0,10), Omega=diag(10), alpha=rep(1,10), df=5) [1] 3.676525e-09

Dear R-help list members, I have created a package 'mnormt' with facilities for the multivariate normal and t distributions. The core part is simply an interface to Fortran routines by Alan Genz for computing the integral of two densities over rectangular regions, using an adaptive integration method. Other R functions compute densities and generate random numbers. The starting

> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch > [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Caio Lucidius > Naberezny Azevedo > Sent: 01 September 2005 12:09 > To: Help mailing list - R > Subject: [R] Multivariate Skew Normal distribution > > > Hi all, > > Could anyone tell me if there is any package (or function)

Is there code for bivariate kernel density estimation? For bivariate kernels there is kde2d in MASS kde2d.g in GRASS KernSur in GenKern (list probably incomplete) but none of them seems to accept a weight parameter (like density does since R 2.2.0) -- Erich Neuwirth, University of Vienna Faculty of Computer Science Computer Supported Didactics Working Group Visit our SunSITE at

Hi, are there any function to plot the empirical probability distribution function? I just don't want to reinvent the wheel... Best wishes, Ott -- Ott Toomet PhD Student Dept. of Economics ?rhus University Building 322 Universitetsparken 8000 ?rhus C Denmark otoomet (a) econ au dk ph: (+45) 89 42 20 27 ------------------------------------------- (o_ (*_ (O_

Does R do cumulative frequency distribution plots? -- Tommy E. Cathey, Senior Scientific Application Consultant High Performance Computing & Scientific Visualization SAIC, Supporting the EPA Research Triangle Park, NC 919-541-1500 EMail: cathey.tommy at epa.gov My e-mail does not reflect the opinion of SAIC or the EPA. Federal Contact - John B. Smith 919-541-1087 - smith.johnb at epa.gov

Hello! I am writing some numbers and character vectors to an ascii file and would like to get rid of [1] ... as shown bellow (a dummy example) R> runif(20) [1] 0.653574 0.164053 0.036031 0.127208 0.134274 0.103252 0.506480 0.547759 [9] 0.912421 0.584382 0.987208 0.996846 0.666760 0.053637 0.327590 0.370737 [17] 0.505706 0.412316 0.887421 0.812151 I have managed to work up to remove quotes

I am using the MASS library function fitdistr(x, dpois, list(lambda=2)) but I get Error in optim(start, mylogfn, x = x, hessian = TRUE, ...) : Function cannot be evaluated at initial parameters In addition: There were 50 or more warnings (use warnings() to see the first 50) and all the first 50 warnings say 1: non-integer x = 1.452222 etc Can anyone tell me what I am doing

I'd welcome some comments or advice regarding the situation described below. The following illustrates what seems to me to be an inconsistency in the behaviour of matrix subsetting: > Z<-matrix(c(1.1,2.1,3.1,1.2,2.2,3.2,1.3,2.3,3.3),nrow=3) > Z [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] 1.1 1.2 1.3 [2,] 2.1 2.2 2.3 [3,] 3.1 3.2 3.3 > dim(Z) [1] 3 3 >

There seems to exist peculiar cases where optim does not take care of constraints on the parameters to be optimized over. The call to optim is of the form opt <- optim(cp, fn=sn.dev, gr=sn.dev.gh, method="L-BFGS-B", lower=c(-Inf, 1e-10, -0.99527), upper=c( Inf, Inf, 0.99527), control=control, X=X, y=y, hessian=FALSE) The code has worked fine

Hi, R guys: I'm using L-BFGS-B method of optim for minimization problem. My function called besselI function which need non-negative parameter and the besselI will overflow if the parameter is too large. So I set the constraint box which is reasonable for my problem. But the point outside the box was test, and I got error. My program and the error follows. This program depends on CircStats

Hello, I am interested in estimating this type of random effects panel: y_it = x'_it * beta + u_it + e_it u_it = rho * u_it-1 + d_it rho belongs to (-1, 1) where: u and e are independently normally zero-mean distributed. d is also independently normally zero-mean distributed. So, I want random effects for group i to be correlated in t, following an AR(1) process. Any idea of how