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.