Folks:
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Petr PIKAL <petr.pi...@precheza.cz> wrote:
> Hi
>
> r-help-boun...@r-project.org napsal dne 28.05.2011 20:12:33:
>
>> "Salil Sharma" <sali...@gmail.com>
>> Odeslal: r-help-boun...@r-project.org
>> Dear Sir,
>>
>>
>>
>> I have data, coming from tests, consisting of 300 values. Is there a way
> in
>> R with which I can confirm this data to 68-95-99.8 rule or three-sigma
> rule?
>>
>> I need to look around percentile ranks and prediction intervals for this
>> data. I, however, used SixSigma package and used ss.ci() function, which
>> produced 95% confidence intervals. I still am not certain about
> percentile
>> ranks conforming to 68-95-99.7 rule for this data.
>>
>
> Not sure what you exactly want but you could look at function quantile.
-- Nor am I, but ...
>
> Or you could compute confidence interval for mean by e.g.
>
I'm pretty sure that this is NOT what he wants.
-- Bert
>> mean.int
> function (x, p = 0.95)
> {
> x.na <- na.omit(x)
> mu <- mean(x.na)
> odch <- sd(x.na)
> l <- length(x.na)
> alfa <- (1 - p)/2
> mu.d <- mu - qt(1 - alfa, l - 1) * odch/sqrt(l)
> mu.h <- mu + qt(1 - alfa, l - 1) * odch/sqrt(l)
> return(data.frame(mu.d, mu, mu.h))
> }
>
> Regards
> Petr
>
>
>>
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
>> Salil Sharma
>>
>>
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