Software and Example Code for Bootstrap Confidence Intervals for Means and Differences in Means

The following uses the simple nonparametric bootstrap percentile approach in R. To obtain 0.95 confidence intervals for a single mean use library(Hmisc) smean.cl.boot(x, B=2000) To get the confidence interval for the difference in two means, say between treatments A and B: bootdif <- function(y, g) { g <- as.factor(g) a <- attr(smean.cl.boot(y[g==levels(g)[1]], B=2000, reps=TRUE),'reps') b <- attr(smean.cl.boot(y[g==levels(g)[2]], B=2000, reps=TRUE),'reps') meandif <- diff(tapply(y, g, mean, na.rm=TRUE)) a.b <- quantile(b-a, c(.025,.975)) res <- c(meandif, a.b) names(res) <- c('Mean Difference','.025','.975') res } bootdif(blood.pressure, treatment) To show bootstrap nonparametric CLs for 3 group means and for pairwise differences on the same graph: set.seed(1) group <- sample(c('a','b','d'), 200, TRUE) y <- runif(200) + .25*(group=='b') + .5*(group=='d') cla <- smean.cl.boot(y[group=='a'],reps=TRUE) a <- attr(cla,'reps') clb <- smean.cl.boot(y[group=='b'],reps=TRUE) b <- attr(clb,'reps') cld <- smean.cl.boot(y[group=='d'],reps=TRUE) d <- attr(cld,'reps') a.b <- quantile(a-b,c(.025,.975)) a.d <- quantile(a-d,c(.025,.975)) b.d <- quantile(b-d,c(.025,.975)) errbar(c('a','b','d','a - b','a - d','b - d'), c(cla[1], clb[1], cld[1], cla[1]-clb[1], cla[1]-cld[1], clb[1]-cld[1]), c(cla[3], clb[3], cld[3], a.b[2], a.d[2], b.d[2]), c(cla[2], clb[2], cld[2], a.b[1], a.d[1],b.d[1]), Type=c(1,1,1,2,2,2))

Bootstrap confidence intervals for means and differences in means

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