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pcadapt (version 1.0)

sdevEstimation: Kurtosis-based Standard Deviation Estimation

Description

sdevEstimation returns an estimate of the standard deviation of a set of values x which is supposed to follow a normal distribution.

Usage

sdevEstimation(x, method = "kurtosis.null")

Arguments

x
a numeric vector whose distribution is supposed to be normal.
method
a character string that specifies which method is used to estimate the standard deviations. Default value set to kurtosis.null. An alternative option is kurtosis.truncated.

Examples

Run this code
x <- rnorm(10000,sd=0.9)
sdevEstimation(x)

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