RSDA (version 2.0.8)

median.sym.data.table: Symbolic Median

Description

This function compute the symbolic median.

Usage

# S3 method for sym.data.table
median(x, na.rm = FALSE, method = c("centers",
  "interval", "modal"), ...)

Arguments

x

The symbolic variable.

na.rm

As in R median function.

method

The method to be use.

...

As in R median function.

Value

Return a real number.

References

Billard L. and Diday E. (2006). Symbolic data analysis: Conceptual statistics and data mining. Wiley, Chichester.

Rodriguez, O. (2000). Classification et Modeles Lineaires en Analyse des Donnees Symboliques. Ph.D. Thesis, Paris IX-Dauphine University.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(example3)
sym.data<-example3
median(sym.data[,2])
median(sym.data[,6] ,method='interval')
median(sym.data[,3] ,method='modal')
# }