[R] Problems with Histogram

Patrick Burns pburns at pburns.seanet.com
Fri Feb 13 17:41:31 CET 2009


One possibility is something along the lines of:

plot(density(bootstraps))
abline(v=original.value)


Patrick Burns
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TomPoes wrote:
> Hello
>
> Currently i'm working on a paper for my study and, on advice of my tutor,
> i'm using R.
> But now i'm stuck on something. 
>
> I've used the bootstrap method to determine if a found value was
> significant. Lets say this found value is x, the collection of random
> samples is y (n=1e+06)
> I've compared x to y and found that x is smaller then 963482 samples of y
> (so p=0.037)
>
> I wanted to show this in a graph and figured a histogram would suit best.
> But I dont get what is expected to get. 
>
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p21998165/example.bmp What I expect 
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p21998165/found.jpg What I found 
>
> Can someone please help me with finding a way to make this significance
> visable in some sort of graph? 
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Jeroen
>




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