Hi Chloe,
Try this:
NUMBER.OF.RUNS<-10 #change here
for (NR in 1:NUMBER.OF.RUNS)
{
number.simulation<-1000
sample.size=15;
variance.list<-NULL
for(i in 1:number.simulation)
{
mysample<-rnorm(sample.size)
variance.list<- c(variance.list, var(mysample))
} #i
hist(variance.list)
} #NR
Bests
milton
brazil=toronto
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Chloe Smith <hapiasf...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear R users,
>
> I am a beginner to R. I generated 1000 samples with 15 data in each sample
>
> I tried finding the variance for each sample
>
> I used the code:
>
> m=1000;n=15
> > r<-rnorm(15000)
> > for(i in 1:m){
> x=data[,i]
> v=var(x)}
>
> what I got was just the variance for the last sample i.e. the 1000th sample
>
> but what I want is 1000 variance.
>
> Does anyone know what I did wrong?
>
> Thanks
>
> Chloe Smith
>
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