On Nov 14, 2014, at 12:15 PM, ivan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to compute bootstrap confidence intervals for weighted means of
> paired differences with the boot package. Unfortunately, the weighted mean
> estimate lies out of the confidence bounds and hence I am obviously doing
> something wrong.
>
> Appreciate any help. Thanks. Here is a reproducible example:
>
>
> library(boot)
> set.seed(1111)
> x <- rnorm(50)
> y <- rnorm(50)
> weights <- runif(50)
> weights <- weights / sum(weights)
> dataset <- cbind(x,y,weights)
> vw_m_diff <- function(dataset,w, d) {
My understanding of the principle underlying the design of the bootstrapped
function was that the data was the first argument and the index vector was the
second. (I admit to not knowing what it would do with a third argument. So I
would have guessed that you wanted:
vw_m_diff <- function(dataset,w) {
differences <- dataset[d,1]-dataset[d,2]
weights <- dataset[w, "weights"]
return(weighted.mean(x=differences, w=weights))
}
I get what appears to me as a sensible set of estimates (since they seem
centered on zero) although I further admit I do not know what the theoretic CI
_should_ be for this problem:
> res_boot <- boot(dataset, statistic=vw_m_diff, R = 1000, w=dataset[,3])
> boot.ci(res_boot)
BOOTSTRAP CONFIDENCE INTERVAL CALCULATIONS
Based on 1000 bootstrap replicates
CALL :
boot.ci(boot.out = res_boot)
Intervals :
Level Normal Basic
95% (-0.5657, 0.4962 ) (-0.5713, 0.5062 )
Level Percentile BCa
95% (-0.6527, 0.4249 ) (-0.5579, 0.5023 )
Calculations and Intervals on Original Scale
> differences <- dataset[d,1]-dataset[d,2]
> weights <- w[d]
> return(weighted.mean(x=differences, w=weights))
> }
> res_boot <- boot(dataset, statistic=vw_m_diff, R = 1000, w=dataset[,3])
> boot.ci(res_boot)
>
> *BOOTSTRAP CONFIDENCE INTERVAL CALCULATIONS*
> *Based on 1000 bootstrap replicates*
>
> *CALL : *
> *boot.ci <http://boot.ci>(boot.out = res_boot)*
>
> *Intervals : *
> *Level Normal Basic *
> *95% (-0.8365, -0.3463 ) (-0.8311, -0.3441 ) *
>
> *Level Percentile BCa *
> *95% (-0.3276, 0.1594 ) (-0.4781, -0.3477 ) *
>
> weighted.mean(x=dataset[,1]-dataset[,2], w=dataset[,3])
>
> *[1] -0.07321734*
>
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