[R] left end or right end

[Matt Shotwell]

Suku, 

It looks like you might want to consult with a [bio]statistician, but
I'm interested in what these distances represent. Can you give some
additional context for your problem? How were these distances collected?
Is it a collection of pairs of intervals, like this:

           P               Q
1)      (1.5, 1.8)      (1.2, 2.0)
2)      (1.4, 1.9)      (1.4, 2.3)
...
10000)  (start1, end1)  (start2, end2)

?

If so, is there a more specific test you're interested in? For instance,
whether the interval P overlaps with the start/stop position of interval
Q, or whether start1 == start2, or end1 == end2, or both? I can think of
a bootstrap test for hypotheses like this, and this is relatively easy
in R.

-Matt

On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 07:53 -0400, ravikumar sukumar wrote:
> Dear all,
> I am a biologist. I have two sets of distance P(start1, end1) and Q(start2,
> end2).
> The distance will be like this.
> P         ------------------------
> Q  ----------------------------------------
> 
> I want to know whether P falls closely to the right end or left  end of Q.
>  P and Q are of different lengths for each data point. There are more than
> 10000 pairs of P and Q.
> Is there any test or function in R to bring a statistically significant
> conclusion.
> 
> Thanks for all,
> Suku
> 
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