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Jean # response variables resp_vars <- runif(20) names(resp_vars) <- paste0("sample_", seq(20)) # independent variables ind_vars <- matrix(sample(c("A", "B"), 2000, TRUE), ncol=20, dimnames=list(paste0("obs_", seq(100)), names(resp_vars))) # save the t-test results to a list t_fit <- apply(ind_vars, 1, function(obs) t.test(resp_vars ~ obs)) # grab the estimates from each t-test and put it in a data frame library(broom) t_est <- do.call(rbind, lapply(t_fit, tidy)) names(t_est) <- c("diff", "meanA", "meanB", "t", "p.value", "df", "conf.low", "conf.high") head(t_est) On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 10:05 AM, White Sky <bluebarbaro...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I'd like to perform a t-test between groups 'A' and 'B'. The difficulty is > that although there is only one response variable, there are many > observations, and the grouping (A or B) differs with each observation. My > code for generating the input data is shown below. > I'd like to know how to approach doing the test, ideally so that the > t-test results for each observation are presented in a table. I'm not sure > where to start as other searches have been futile... something along the > lines of t.test(ind_vars ~ resp_vars) , maybe using rapply, and separating > groups by A and B each time... > # Matrix for response variableN_samples <- 20resp_vars <- > matrix(runif(n=N_samples, min=0, max=1))sample_names <- paste0("sample_", > 1:N_samples )rownames(x=resp_vars) <- sample_namescolnames(x=resp_vars) <- > "resp"resp_vars [1:5,] > # Matrix for independent variablesN_observations <- 100ind_vars <- > matrix(NA, N_observations, N_samples)ind_vars <- apply(ind_vars, c(1,2), > function(x) sample(c("A", "B"),1))ind_var_names <- paste0("obs_", > 1:N_observations)rownames(x=ind_vars) <- ind_var_namescolnames(x=ind_vars) > <- sample_namesind_vars[1:3,1:5] > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.