Dear List: I am trying to find the area between two ECDFs. I am examining the gap in performance between two groups, males and females on a student achievement test in math, which is a continuous metric. I start by creating a subset of the dataframe male<-subset(datafile, female="Male") female<-subset(datafile, female="Female") I then plot the two CDFs via plot.ecdf(male$math) plot.ecdf(female$math, add=TRUE) This produces the visual display that reveals a gap in performance. What I would like to do is learn to perform the integration between the two ECDFs to examine the size of this gap. I would also like to try and examine the horizontal distance between the two CDFs via another visual display. In other words, the distance between, say the 50th percentile, from each CDF (or, the distance along the x-axis from cdf1 to cdf2 at each percentile. Ideally, I would like to plot this horizontal gap at each percentile. Secondly, I would like to try and measure and plot the vertical gap, i.e., the distance along the y-axis from cdf 1 to cdf2 at each value along the x-axis. I am not sure if I first need to smooth the ECDFs before performing these operations. Any help would be appreciated. I hope this makes sense. Harold ------ Harold C. Doran Director of Research and Evaluation New American Schools 675 N. Washington Street, Suite 220 Alexandria, Virginia 22314 703.647.1628 <http://www.edperform.net/>
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