On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 05:12:19 PM CJ Davies wrote: > I am trying to show that the red line ('yaw') in the upper of the two > plots here; > > http://i.imgur.com/N4Xxb4f.png > > varies more within the pink sections ('transition 1') than in the light > blue sections ('real'). > > I tried to use var.test() however this runs into a problem because > although the red line doesn't vary much *within* any particular light > blue section, it does vary a lot *between* light blue sections. > > For example, in the light blue section around t=90 the red line doesn't > move much & likewise in the light blue section around t=160 the red line > doesn't move much. But between these two sections the red line has moved > substantially. > > So if I simply subset the data according to pink/light blue & then put > those resultant subsets into var.test(), the answer does not show the > relationship that I want it to. > > Can anybody shed some light on a sensible method of solving this? > Hi CJ, If your dataset has the transition type coded for each observation:
rotation transition 90 blue 90 blue 115 pink -10 pink 30 green ... you could aggregate all the observations within each transition type and test that. Jim ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.