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4 messages · Peter Ehlers, Dimitri Liakhovitski, Jannis

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Hello!

I am running a very simple mini Monte-Carlo below using the function
tstatistic (right below this sentence):

tstatistic = function(x,y){
	m=length(x)
	n=length(y)
	sp=sqrt( ((m-1)*sd(x)^2 + (n-1)*sd(y)^2)/(m+n-2) )
	t=(mean(x)-mean(y))/(sp*sqrt(1/m+1/n))
	return(t)
}

alpha=.1; m=10; n=10 # sets alpha, m, n - for run 1
N=10000 # sets the number of simulations
n.reject=0 # counter of num. of rejections
tstat<-vector()
for (i in 1:N){
	x = rnorm(m,mean=10,sd=2) # simulates xs from population 1
	y=rexp(n,rate=1/10)
	t = tstatistic(x,y) # computes the t statistic
	tstat = c(tstat,t)
	if (abs(t)>qt(1-alpha/2,n+m-2))
	n.reject=n.reject+1 # reject if |t| exceeds critical pt
}
true.sig.level=n.reject/N # est. is proportion of rejections
true.sig.level

And then I would like to plot the observed t values (in the vector
"tstat") against the values of the t density with df=18. Somehow, my t
denstity (code line 2 below) does not show up:
plot(density(tstat),xlim=c(-5,8),ylim=c(0,.4),lwd=3)
lines(x,dt(x,df=18))
legend(4,.3,c("exact","t(18)"),lwd=c(3,1))

Thanks a lot!
D.
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On 2010-05-24 10:50, Dimitri Liakhovitski wrote:
Perhaps

  plot(x,dt(x,df=18))

will provide a clue. (What's x?)
You probably want

  x <- tstat[order(tstat)]

  -Peter Ehlers
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Thanks a lot, Peter, that's exactly what I was looking for:

plot(density(tstat),xlim=c(-5,8),ylim=c(0,.4),lwd=2,col='red')
z <- tstat[order(tstat)]
lines(z,dt(z,df=18),col='blue')
legend(4,.3,c("exact","t(18)"),lwd=c(2,1),col=c('red','blue'))

Dimitri
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Peter Ehlers <ehlers at ucalgary.ca> wrote:

  
    
1 day later
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Your line does show up, but the x values start at ~6 and the y values are incredibly small, so it is masked by the y=0 line. You probably have to check your calculations!

--- Dimitri Liakhovitski <dimitri.liakhovitski at gmail.com> schrieb am Mo, 24.5.2010: