matrixStats (version 0.12.2)

weightedMad: Weighted Median Absolute Deviation (MAD)

Description

Computes a weighted MAD of a numeric vector.

Usage

weightedMad(x, w, na.rm=FALSE, constant=1.4826, center=NULL, ...)

Arguments

x

a numeric vector containing the values whose weighted MAD is to be computed.

w

a vector of weights the same length as x giving the weights to use for each element of x. Negative weights are treated as zero weights. Default value is equal weight to all values.

na.rm

a logical value indicating whether NA values in x should be stripped before the computation proceeds, or not. If NA, no che

constant

A numeric scale factor, cf. mad.

center

Optional numeric scalar specifying the center location of the data. If NULL, it is estimated from data.

...

Not used.

Value

• Returns a numeric scalar.

Missing values

Missing values are dropped at the very beginning, if argument na.rm is TRUE, otherwise not.

See Also

For the non-weighted MAD, see mad. Internally weightedMedian() is used to calculate the weighted median.

Examples

x <- 1:10
n <- length(x)

m1 <- mad(x)
m2 <- weightedMad(x)
stopifnot(identical(m1, m2))

w <- rep(1, times=n)
m1 <- weightedMad(x, w)
stopifnot(identical(m1,m2))

# All weight on the first value
w[1] <- Inf
m <- weightedMad(x, w)
stopifnot(m == 0)

# All weight on the first two values
w[1:2] <- Inf
m1 <- mad(x[1:2])
m2 <- weightedMad(x, w)
stopifnot(identical(m1,m2))

# All weights set to zero
w <- rep(0, times=n)
m <- weightedMad(x, w)
stopifnot(is.na(m))