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Equivalence of script lines |
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Jas Wer posted on Monday, August 24, 2015 - 5:15 am
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Hi, My question is about using a script shortcut. I'm using a bivariate Cholesky decomposition to examine genetic and environmental influences on the association between two variables. I would like to express the genetic and environmental influences on each variable as a proportion of the total variance, which entails dividing the genetic or environmental influence by the total variance for that variable. The genetic influence on Variable1 is defined as a11=x11**2; and the total variance on variable 1 as v11 = x11**2 + y11**2 + z11**2; So now, for obtaining genetic influences as a proportion of total variance, I'm using this line: h1=x11**2/(x11**2 + y11**2 + z11**2); However, I was wondering whether I could also just write it it like this: h1=a11/v11; Is there any reason why one should use the first version over the second? It does make quite a big difference in the time it takes to run the models and in the length of the script lines. Also, related to this: what exactly does the double asterisk mean, anyway? I couldn't find this in the User's Guide. Thanks and best wishes |
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You can write it either way and it makes no difference. Double asterisk means "to the power of 2". |
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