Re: [R] Calculation of standard error for a function

2012-03-03 Thread Rubén Roa
-project.org on behalf of Jun Shen Sent: Fri 3/2/2012 10:47 PM To: R-help Subject: [R] Calculation of standard error for a function Dear list, If I know the standard error for k1 and k2, is there anything I can call in R to calculate the standard error of k1/k2? Thanks. Jun [[alternative HTML

Re: [R] Calculation of standard error for a function

2012-03-02 Thread Rolf Turner
On 03/03/12 13:35, David Winsemius wrote: On Mar 2, 2012, at 7:05 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 12-03-02 4:47 PM, Jun Shen wrote: Dear list, If I know the standard error for k1 and k2, is there anything I can call in R to calculate the standard error of k1/k2? Thanks. No, because it depen

Re: [R] Calculation of standard error for a function

2012-03-02 Thread David Winsemius
On Mar 2, 2012, at 7:05 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 12-03-02 4:47 PM, Jun Shen wrote: Dear list, If I know the standard error for k1 and k2, is there anything I can call in R to calculate the standard error of k1/k2? Thanks. No, because it depends on the joint distribution of k1 and k2.

Re: [R] Calculation of standard error for a function

2012-03-02 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 12-03-02 4:47 PM, Jun Shen wrote: Dear list, If I know the standard error for k1 and k2, is there anything I can call in R to calculate the standard error of k1/k2? Thanks. No, because it depends on the joint distribution of k1 and k2. Even if you knew they were independent, that would no

Re: [R] Calculation of standard error for a function

2012-03-02 Thread David Winsemius
On Mar 2, 2012, at 4:47 PM, Jun Shen wrote: Dear list, If I know the standard error for k1 and k2, is there anything I can call in R to calculate the standard error of k1/k2? Thanks. This does not appear to be a well-posed question yet, and it is arguably more a statistics question than

[R] Calculation of standard error for a function

2012-03-02 Thread Jun Shen
Dear list, If I know the standard error for k1 and k2, is there anything I can call in R to calculate the standard error of k1/k2? Thanks. Jun [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailm