On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Samuelson, Frank* wrote:
You may not want to integrate cdfs. They're already probabilities. :)
Nice analytic statistics exist for just the maximum distance between
the cdfs, for example.
And for the area between cdfs, which is perhaps better known as the
difference in
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From: Thomas Lumley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: Samuelson, Frank*
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Subject: RE: [R] Area between CDFs
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Samuelson, Frank* wrote:
You
mf-c(male,female)
ord-order(mf);
v-c(rep(1/length(male),length(male)),rep(-1/length(female),length(female)))
;
mf-mf[ord];
v-v[ord];
sum(diff(mf)*(cumsum(v)[1:(length(v)-1)]))
You may not want to integrate cdfs. They're already probabilities. :)
Nice analytic statistics exist for just the
