RSDA (version 2.0.8)

sym.median: Symbolic Median

Description

This function compute the symbolic median.

Usage

sym.median(sym.var, method = c('centers', 'interval', 'modal'), na.rm = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

sym.var

The symbolic variable.

method

The method to be use.

na.rm

As in R median function.

...

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
sym.median(sym.var(sym.data,1))
sym.median(sym.var(sym.data,2))
sym.median(sym.var(sym.data,6),method='interval')
sym.median(sym.var(sym.data,3),method='modal')
# }