I am trying to calculate the confidence interval for a set of data with the assumption they follow Exp dist. To achieve this, I am merging this with this in R, but does not work as I am not very efficient in R.
summarySE <- function(data=NULL, measurevar, groupvars=NULL, na.rm=FALSE,
conf.interval=.95, .drop=TRUE) {
library(plyr)
# New version of length which can handle NA's: if na.rm==T, don't count them
length2 <- function (x, na.rm=FALSE) {
if (na.rm) sum(!is.na(x))
else length(x)
}
# This does the summary. For each group's data frame, return a vector with
# N, mean, and sd
datac <- ddply(data, groupvars, .drop=.drop,
.fun = function(xx, col) {
c(N = length2(xx[[col]], na.rm=na.rm),
mean = mean (xx[[col]], na.rm=na.rm),
sd = sd (xx[[col]], na.rm=na.rm)
)
},
measurevar
)
# Rename the "mean" column
datac <- rename(datac, c("mean" = measurevar))
# datac$se <- datac$sd / sqrt(datac$N) # Calculate standard error of the
mean
# Confidence interval multiplier for standard error
# Calculate t-statistic for confidence interval:
# e.g., if conf.interval is .95, use .975 (above/below), and use df=N-1
# ciMult <- qt(conf.interval/2 + .5, datac$N-1)
datac$ci <- qgamma(c(.025,.975), 20, 20)/ mean(datac$measurevar )
return(datac)
}
mean <- 25
dataframe <- data.frame(rnd=rexp(1000, rate =
1/mean),Description=c(rep('A',500),rep('B',500)),dayname= c(rep(
'Sunday',500),rep( 'Monday',500)))
tgc= summarySE(dataframe, measurevar="rnd", groupvars=c("Description"
,"dayname"))