Re: [R] how to estimate distribution?

2009-03-09 Thread Mike Lawrence
I know it only causes a shift and scale transformation of the distribution, but it always gets my goat when I see people using the sum as a statistic of interest when the mean has a more general application (i.e. some other researcher obtains a different number of observations per subject) and a

[R] how to estimate distribution?

2009-03-04 Thread Simone Gabbriellini
Dear R-Experts, I have an empirical dataset with 150 subjects for 24 observations. In each observation, each subject can have a score in the range 0:3. I made then a simple index making the sum of the values in each row, so each subject have a score between 0 and 72. I was thinking about what