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matrixStats (version 0.51.0)

weightedVar: Weighted variance and weighted standard deviation

Description

Computes a weighted variance / standard deviation of a numeric vector or across rows or columns of a matrix.

Usage

weightedVar(x, w=NULL, idxs=NULL, na.rm=FALSE, center=NULL, ...)
 colWeightedVars(x, w=NULL, rows=NULL, cols=NULL, na.rm=FALSE, ...)
 rowWeightedVars(x, w=NULL, rows=NULL, cols=NULL, na.rm=FALSE, ...)
 weightedSd(...)
 colWeightedSds(x, w=NULL, rows=NULL, cols=NULL, na.rm=FALSE, ...)
 rowWeightedSds(x, w=NULL, rows=NULL, cols=NULL, na.rm=FALSE, ...)

Arguments

x
a numeric vector containing the values whose weighted variance 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.
idxs, rows, cols
A vector indicating subset of elements (or rows and/or columns) to operate over. If NULL, no subsetting is done.
na.rm
a logical value indicating whether NA values in x should be stripped before the computation proceeds, or not. If NA, no check at all for NAs is done. Default value is NA (for efficiency).
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.

Weighted variance

The weights used by the weighted variance (and standard deviation) estimator should be consider so called frequency weights such that weightedVar(c(2,4,5), w=c(2,1,3)) == var(c(2, 2, 4, 5, 5, 5)). Note that this means that the estimate is not invariant to a scale factor on the weights, e.g. passing normalized weights will not give the same estimate as non-normalized weights.

See Also

For the non-weighted variance, see var.