On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Jacob van Wyk wrote:
> Hallo
>
> Is there an elegant way to do the following:
>
> Dataset consists of 2 variables: var1: some measurements, and var2: a
> grouping variable with two values, 1 and 2.
> There are (say) 10 measurements from group 1 and 15 measurements from group 2.
> The idea is to study the permutation distribution of mean(group 1) *
> mean(group2).
> One way would be to permute 1s and 2s and select the corresponding
> measurements; calculate the difference in means.
> Redo this 1000 times, say. Etc.
There are only choose(25,10) == 3268760 values.
You can enumerate all the sums of the values in one group following:
http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/76450.html
from which the products of the means are easily obtained.
Takes about 5 seconds on my 2GHz AMD running Windows XP.
HTH,
Chuck
Charles C. Berry (858) 534-2098
Dept of Family/Preventive Medicine
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