Re: [R] Help finding the proper function

2008-10-23 Thread Rolf Turner
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Re: [R] Help finding the proper function

2008-10-23 Thread Rolf Turner
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Re: [R] Help finding the proper function

2008-10-23 Thread Rolf Turner
On 24/10/2008, at 1:37 AM, Tom.O wrote: Ok, I'll try to be clearer. I'll start from the beginning. I have a set of samples that I'm going to use to model a proxy for a common property. This property is that the samples are either in a "quiet" or "chaotic" state. Both the quiet and chaot

Re: [R] Help finding the proper function

2008-10-23 Thread Tom.O
Ok, I'll try to be clearer. I'll start from the beginning. I have a set of samples that I'm going to use to model a proxy for a common property. This property is that the samples are either in a "quiet" or "chaotic" state. Both the quiet and chaotic state is modelled to be normal distributed. So

Re: [R] Help finding the proper function

2008-10-22 Thread Rolf Turner
Your terminology is confused. At least it confuses me. I think you are mixing up ``bivariate distributions'' and ``mixture'' (of two) distributions. What you get by rbinding x.1 and x.2 is a sample from a mixture of two *bivariate* (Gaussian) distributions, one with mean c(0,0), and one wi

[R] Help finding the proper function

2008-10-22 Thread Tom.O
This might not be the correct forum for this question for there might be some flaws in my logic so the R function I'm looking for might not be the correct, but I know there’s a lot of smart people in this forum so please correct me if I'm wrong. I have been googling and searching in this forum for