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Question regarding error "x and y lengths differ"
2 messages · Sean Doyle, Jim Lemon
On 04/30/2013 11:38 AM, Sean Doyle wrote:
Hello, I'm a first semester statistics student<http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Question-regarding-error-quot-x-and-y-lengths-differ-quot-td4665773.html#>and I am using R for roughly the third time ever. I am following a tutorial and yet I still get the error "x and y lengths differ." I am very new to this program, and I have searched for solutions, but because I do not understand the program too well, I am not sure which solution may apply to me. Any help is much appreciated! The question is as follows: Do this given your population standard deviation. If we pick a confidence interval, say ? = 0.1(90% confidence), we can compute a confidence interval for our measure of the population mean for each one of our samples. Now let?s compute and plot the confidence intervals for the 50 samples:> m = 50; n = 40; mu = mean(pop); sigma = sd(pop);
SE = sigma/sqrt(n) # Standard error in mean alpha = 0.10 ; zstar = qnorm(1-alpha/2); # Find z for 90%
confidence
matplot(rbind( samp_mean - zstar*SE, samp_mean +
zstar*SE),rbind(1:m,1:m), type="l", lty=1);
abline(v=mu)
I am receiving the error "Error in xy.coords(x, y, xlabel, ylabel, log = log) : 'x' and 'y' lengths differ" when inputting>matplot(rbind( samp_mean - zstar*SE, samp_mean + zstar*SE),rbind(1:m,1:m), type="l", lty=1);
Hi Sean, Without doing your homework for you, I would suggest trying this: length(samp_mean) length(zstar*SE) length(1:m) I would be very surprised if you got the same answer for all three. Also you might want to read the help page for matplot carefully to decide which is the "x" and which is the "y" you want to plot. Jim