weighted.mad: Weighted median absolute deviation to median

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Weighted median absolute deviation to median

Description

Computes the weighted median absolute deviation to median (aka MAD) of a distribution.

Usage

weighted.mad(x, weights = NULL, na.rm = FALSE)

Arguments

x	numeric vector
weights	numeric vector of weights. If NULL (default), uniform weights (i.e. all equal to 1) are used.
na.rm	logical, indicating whether NA values should be silently removed before the computation proceeds. Default is FALSE.

Value

a length-one numeric vector

Author(s)

Nicolas Robette

See Also

weighted.quantile

Examples

data(Movies)
weighted.mad(Movies$Critics, weights = rep(c(.8,1.2), 500))

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