cut_equal: cut function for (appr.) equal intervals

In amp.sim: Flexible Simulation Utilities for Pharmacometric Modeling

cut function for (appr.) equal intervals

Description

This function uses cut to make categories based on approximately equal number of bins

Usage

cut_equal(x, n, type = 1, ntries = 1000)

Arguments

x	the vector that should be cut into equal bins
n	the number of bins that should be used
type	the type of algorithm to be used (see details)
ntries	number of samples/tries for type 2

Details

Generating equal bins can be quite difficult. There are multiple ways of assessing if bins are equal. This function provides a method based on quantiles (type=1) or a method based on sampling proposed by M. Ruppert (type=2). In general type 1 is faster but less accurate, while type 2 is slower and more accurate (in case of a reasonable ntries)

Value

a character vector with the categories/bins

Author(s)

Richard Hooijmaijers

Examples

 table(cut_equal(1:20,5))

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