[R] Power curves

Chuck Cleland ccleland at optonline.net
Mon Apr 14 12:47:14 CEST 2008


On 4/14/2008 6:35 AM, Chuck Cleland wrote:
> On 4/14/2008 6:21 AM, Louisa Hay wrote:
>>  
>> Hi,
>> I am trying to create a power curve to show how the power of a t-test varies depending on the mean. Any ideas how I should go about this?
>> Louisa
> 
>    Something like this maybe?
> 
> mydiffs <- seq(.05,1,.05)
> 
> mypower <- vector("numeric", 20)
> 
> for(i in 1:20){
>    mypower[i] <- power.t.test(n=100, sd=1, delta=mydiffs[i])$power
> }
> 
> plot(mymeans, mypower, xlab="delta", ylab="Power", type="b")

   Sorry - that last line should be:

plot(mydiffs, mypower, xlab="delta", ylab="Power", type="b")

>    See ?power.t.test
> 
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