rv (version 0.949)

rvboot: Generate a Random Vector from an Empirical Distribution

Description

rvboot generates a random vector of the same length as data from the empirical distribution of the data.

Usage

rvboot(data)

Arguments

data

A vector of constants

Details

rvboot

References

Kerman, Jouni and Gelman, Andrew. Manipulating and Summarizing Posterior Simulations Using Random Variable Objects. Technical report, Columbia University, New York.

Examples

y <- rnorm(30) # Some data: 30 draws from standard normal.
  x <- rvboot(y) # A random vector of length 30 (each component has the same distribution)
  print(mean(x)) # Bootstrap estimate of the mean.
  print(sd(x))   # Bootstrap estimate of the sd.
  rvinci(mean(x), 0) # Hypothesis test: mean of x is zero (at 5% level) FALSE => reject.