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Example R Session 3 CSSS 508 Spring 2005 The following is color coded: blue for comments/description red for commands typed into R black for response of R violet for functions written in a text editor and saved in a separate file will have a box around them. help(rnorm) rnorm(n,mean=a,sd=b) returns a vector of n numbers that have each been randomly sampled from a normal distribution with mean a and standard deviation b. rnorm(5,mean=6,sd=3) [1] 7.615454 10.709998 1.525228 1.669521 11.940857 What was the probability that we would get a value below 0? pnorm(0,mean=6,sd=3) [1] 0What was the probability that we would get a value above 9? pnorm(9,mean=6,sd=3,lower.tail=FALSE) [1] 0.1586553 Suppose we wanted to plot a standard normal curve. x - seq(-2.5,2.5,0.1) x [1] -2.5 -2.4 -2.3 -2.2 -2.1 -2.0 -1.9 -1.8 -1.7 -1.6 -1.5 -1.4 -1.3 [14] -1.2 -1.1 -1.0 -0.9 -0.8 -0.7 -0.6 -0.5 -0.4 -0.3 -0.2 -0.1 0.0 [27] 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 [40] 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 y - dnorm(x,mean=0,sd=1) y [1] 000000 [7] 000000[13] 000000[19] 000000[25] 000000[31] 000000[37] 000000[43] 000000[49] 000 plot(x,y) plot(x,y,type=l) Using the quantile function qnorm(.025,mean=0,sd=1) [1] -1.959964 qnorm(0.95) [1] 1.644854  qnorm(0.05,lower.tail=F) [1] 1.644854 qnorm(0.5,mean=17,sd=2) [1] 17 Suppose we wanted to know the score you had to get on the quantitative GREs to be in the 75 percentile