std_: Alternative Standardization Methods

In Qindex: Continuous and Dichotomized Index Predictors Based on Distribution Quantiles

Alternative Standardization Methods

Description

Alternative standardization using median, IQR and mad.

Usage

std_IQR(x, na.rm = TRUE, ...)

std_mad(x, na.rm = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

x	numeric vector
na.rm	logical scalar, see functions quantile, median and mad. Default TRUE
...	additional parameters of functions quantile and/or mad

Value

Standardize using median and IQR

Function std_IQR returns a numeric vector of the same length as x.

Standardize using median and mad

Function std_mad returns a numeric vector of the same length as x.

Examples

std_IQR(rnorm(20))
std_mad(rnorm(20))

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