cumvar: Cumulative Variance

In cumstats: Cumulative Descriptive Statistics

Description

Returns a vector whose elements are the cumulative sample variance of the elements of the argument.

Usage

cumvar(x)

Arguments

x	a numeric vector.

Value

A numeric vector of the same length as x. An NA value in x causes the corresponding and following elements of the return value to be NA. The first entry is always NA since sample variance requires at least two values.

Author(s)

Arturo Erdely.

References

Kotz, S., Balakrishnan, N., Read, C.B, Vidakovic, B., Johnson, N.L. (2006) Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences. Wiley, New Jersey.

Examples

cumvar(c(9, 1, 4, 0, 3, NA, 8, 5))

Example output

[1]       NA 32.00000 16.33333 16.33333 12.30000       NA       NA       NA

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