rvboot {rv} | R Documentation |
rvboot
generates a random vector of the same length as data
from the empirical distribution of the data.
rvboot(data)
data |
A vector of constants |
rvboot
Jouni Kerman kerman@stat.columbia.edu http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~kerman
Kerman, Jouni and Gelman, Andrew. Manipulating and Summarizing Posterior Simulations Using Random Variable Objects. Technical report, Columbia University, New York.
y <- rnorm(30) # Some data: 30 draws from standard normal. x <- rvboot(y) # A random vector of length 30 (each component has the same distribution) print(mean(x)) # Bootstrap estimate of the mean. print(sd(x)) # Bootstrap estimate of the sd. rvinci(mean(x), 0) # Hypothesis test: mean of x is zero (at 5