[R] Calculating sum of squares from density estimates

Rainer M Krug r.m.krug at gmail.com
Thu Jan 24 14:56:45 CET 2008


Hi

I have some density estimates obtained from density(). I would like to 
calculate the sum of squares of these. As the x values of the estimates 
are not the same, and I would prefer not to restrict the estiomate to a 
certain range of x values, how can I do the calculation?

Lets say:

d1 <- density(Data1)
d2 <- density(Data2)

If the x values would be the same, I would:

ssq <- sum( (d1$y - d2$y)^2 )

but as it isn't, I can't do that.

is there an easy way to get the sum of squares?

Thanks,

Rainer



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