Try this: maxreps=1000 my.medians=rep(NA,maxreps) for(repnum in 1:maxreps){ my.sample=sample(my.distribution,length(my.distribution)/10) #change sampling ratio if #desired this.rep.median=median(my.sample) my.medians[repnum]=this.rep.median } #Now, you can get CI two ways #first, IF you are willing to assume a few things, the s.d. of your median dist is the s.e. of #your estimate, the CI follows i.e. mean(my.medians)+- 2*sd(my.medians) #OR,(Better), just quantile the interval out. i.e.for a 95% interval lower=quantile(my.medians,.025) upper=quantile(my.medians,.975)
This way, you can find the maxreps that are right for your machine. Ken Hutchison 2011/12/20 Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> > > > On 20.12.2011 06:47, Vikram Bahure wrote: > >> Dear R users, >> >> I am getting following error while using boot.ci. I have int.inc function >> with 20000 values. I am generating CI for the sample estimate. >> >> *> med<- function(x,i) median(x[i])* >> *> b1<- boot(int.inc,med,2)* >> *> ci.out<- boot.ci(b1,conf = c(0.95),type = c("bca"))* >> *Error: cannot allocate vector of size 1.5 Gb* >> * >> * >> It would be very helpful to get some insight on this. >> > > Which more insight than the one that RAM available to R is not sufficient > for such a memory intensive task? > > Uwe > > > > > >> Regards >> Vikram >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________**________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/r-help<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/** >> posting-guide.html <http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html> >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > ______________________________**________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/r-help<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/** > posting-guide.html <http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.