[R] Significance of difference in means using Monte Carlo Simulation in R

Bert Gunter bgunter@4567 @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Wed May 22 16:39:02 CEST 2019


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On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 12:56 AM Lyndz <olagueralyndonmark429 using gmail.com>
wrote:

> I want to implement a statistical test by the following paper in R:
> https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/full/10.1175/JCLI4217.1
>
> **Details**
>
> The above paper calculates the significance of the difference in means
> between two periods :1961-1983 and 1984-2000 of tropical cyclone passage
> frequency (not-normally distributed) using Monte Carlo simulation. The
> following steps are provided:
>
> >1). First, 9999 randomly sorted 40-yr time series of the typhoon passage
> frequency are prepared.
>
> >2). Averages of the former 23-yr values (1961-1983) minus those of the
> latter 17-yr values are calculated.
>
> >3). From the rank of the original difference value among 10000 samples,
> the significance level is estimated.
>
> Suppose I have the following 40-yr time series.
>
>     > dat<-floor(runif(40, min=0, max=20))
>     > dput(dat)
>     c(15, 14, 1, 16, 0, 18, 5, 8, 19, 7, 11, 15, 2, 17, 12, 16, 1,
>     9, 9, 19, 12, 17, 15, 10, 1, 11, 10, 12, 17, 10, 4, 2, 9, 10,
>     9, 5, 13, 6, 0, 17)
>
> **PROBLEMS**
>
> 1. I am new in R and I am not sure how to implement this test.
> Any suggestion on how to do this in R?
> I'll appreciate any help.
>
> *Lyndz*
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