[R] Question on Differentiating Two Populations in R

[Jim Brennan]

If I am understanding correctly you can have a look at
 ? t.test
and ? wilcox.test
depending on assumptions.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "James R. Graham" <jamesrgraham at mac.com>
To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 9:38 PM
Subject: [R] Question on Differentiating Two Populations in R


> Hello All,
>
> Forgive me if this a blatantly newbie question or not germane to the
> list, but i was wondering if my current approach to my problem is the
> best way in R.
>
> I have two experimental datasets (positive and negative) of differing
> lengths and a large number of ways of numerically expressing the data
> by using various scales to represent each data point.
>
> I am looking for a scale that will allow me to differentiate between
> the positive and negative populations.
>
> Each dataset is simply a list of numbers: 43 numbers in the positive
> case and 9 in the negative (small sets, i know, but it's all the data i
> currently have) and I have hundreds of scales.
>
> I assign each dataset to a variable using scan() (each are in separate
> files).
>
> My initial comparison of the two datasets is simply a boxplot with the
> hope that the two do not overlap too much...
>
> Is this the way you would approach this problem? Is there an easier way
> of doing this in R?
>
> Any and all help is greatly appreciated!
>
> james
>
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