What you are missing is reading the helpfile! The function mean is not a valid statistic to be passed to boot function(x, i) mean(x[i]) is.
Please do read the documentation. That's why it is provided. ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Angelo J. Canty Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Mathematics and Statistics Phone: (905) 525-9140 x 27079 | | McMaster University Fax : (905) 522-0935 | | 1280 Main St. W. | | Hamilton ON L8S 4K1 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Morris, Jeffrey [OCDUS] wrote: > What in the world am I missing?? > > > x<-rnorm(20) > > > mean(x) > [1] -0.2272851 > > > results<-boot(x,mean,R=5) > > > results[2] > $t > [,1] > [1,] -0.2294562 > [2,] -0.2294562 > [3,] -0.2294562 > [4,] -0.2294562 > [5,] -0.2294562 > > Jeff Morris > Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics > A Johnson & Johnson Co. > Rochester, NY > Tel: (585) 453-5794 > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
