You will have to make some assumptions about the nature of the relationship between the two variables. David Greenberg, Sociology Department, New York University
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From: "Tiago V. Pereira" <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, February 5, 2009 4:09 pm
Subject: st: Fitting the integral of a unknown function
To: [email protected]
> Dear statalisters,
>
> I am unsure if the topic is 100% related to the objective I am looking
> for, because I failed to find an exact expression in English.
>
> I have two positively correlated variables (say, X and Y) that can range
> from 0 to 1.
>
> For every value of X (0 to 1) I have values for Y, giving a non-linear
> curve. Is it possible to calculate the area under the curve having only
> these data?
>
> All the best,
>
> Tiago
>
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