weighted.quantile: Weighted quantiles

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Weighted quantiles

Description

Computes the weighted quantiles of a distribution.

Usage

weighted.quantile(x, weights = NULL, probs = seq(0, 1, 0.25),
                  na.rm = FALSE, names = FALSE)

Arguments

x	numeric vector whose sample quantiles are wanted
weights	numeric vector of weights. If NULL (default), uniform weights (i.e. all equal to 1) are used.
probs	numeric vector of probabilities with values in [0,1]
na.rm	logical, indicating whether NA values should be silently removed before the computation proceeds. Default is FALSE.
names	logical. if TRUE, the result has a names attribute. Default is FALSE.

Value

A numeric vector of the same length as probs argument.

Note

This function is taken from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2748725/is-there-a-weighted-median-function

See Also

weighted.mad

Examples

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

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