[R] t-test: many changing groups.

[Adams, Jean]

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# response variables
resp_vars <- runif(20)
names(resp_vars) <- paste0("sample_", seq(20))

# independent variables
ind_vars <- matrix(sample(c("A", "B"), 2000, TRUE), ncol=20,
  dimnames=list(paste0("obs_", seq(100)), names(resp_vars)))

# save the t-test results to a list
t_fit <- apply(ind_vars, 1, function(obs) t.test(resp_vars ~ obs))

# grab the estimates from each t-test and put it in a data frame
library(broom)
t_est <- do.call(rbind, lapply(t_fit, tidy))
names(t_est) <- c("diff", "meanA", "meanB", "t", "p.value", "df",
  "conf.low", "conf.high")

head(t_est)



On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 10:05 AM, White Sky <bluebarbarossa at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> I'd like to perform a t-test between groups 'A' and 'B'. The difficulty is
> that although there is only one response variable, there are many
> observations, and the grouping (A or B) differs with each observation. My
> code for generating the input data is shown below.
> I'd like to know how to approach doing the test, ideally so that the
> t-test results for each observation are presented in a table. I'm not sure
> where to start as other searches have been futile... something along the
> lines of t.test(ind_vars ~ resp_vars) , maybe using rapply, and separating
> groups by A and B each time...
> # Matrix for response variableN_samples <- 20resp_vars <-
> matrix(runif(n=N_samples, min=0, max=1))sample_names <- paste0("sample_",
> 1:N_samples )rownames(x=resp_vars) <- sample_namescolnames(x=resp_vars) <-
> "resp"resp_vars [1:5,]
> # Matrix for independent variablesN_observations <- 100ind_vars <-
> matrix(NA, N_observations, N_samples)ind_vars <- apply(ind_vars, c(1,2),
> function(x) sample(c("A", "B"),1))ind_var_names <- paste0("obs_",
> 1:N_observations)rownames(x=ind_vars) <- ind_var_namescolnames(x=ind_vars)
> <- sample_namesind_vars[1:3,1:5]
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