Respected All, I hope you are enjoying good health, I am tring to write a program in R but could not be very sucessful. My program draws random sample form bivariate normal distribution and then compute a variable PIJ. For certian samples some entries of variable PIJ is apearing as negative, which result in negative variance estimator. I want to introduce a loop in my program that verify the each value of PIJ and if any value in PIJ is negitive return back and draw another sample until a sample is selected that produces all values of PIJ positive.
library(mvtnorm) library(combinat) yg <- function(n,m,s) { n<-10 m<-c(1,2) s<- matrix(c(4,.2,.2,3), ncol=2) x <- rmvnorm(n=n, mean=m, sigma=s) pi <- x[,2]/sum(x[,2]) P <- pi*((1-2*pi)/(1-pi)+sum(pi/(1-pi))) Pi<-t(combn(pi,2)) y<-t(combn(x[,1],2)) PI<-t(combn(P,2)) yht <- y[,1]/PI[,1]+ y[,2]/PI[,2] *PIJ <- (Pi[,1]*Pi[,2]*(2-Pi[,1]-Pi[,2]))/((1-Pi[,1])*(1-Pi[,2]))* Eyht <- sum(yht*PIJ) E2yht <- sum(yht^2*PIJ) var1 <- E2yht - Eyht^2 var1 } I want to impose the condition on PIJ(which is a vector). If any value in the PIJ is negative then go back and take another sample until a sample is selected which produces the PIJ positive(all values in PIJ). I hope now you can understand. Best Regards, Nadeem Shafique Butt [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.