zdifference_var: z-difference for variance of continuous variable

In weightedZdiff: Calculation of z-Differences

Description

The function calculates the weighted z-Difference for a continuous variable (x) with binaryreference variable (ref) a

Usage

zdifference_var(x,ref,w=NULL,na.rm=TRUE,r)

Arguments

x	The continuous variable for which the weighted z-Difference should be calculated.
ref	The binary reference variable as a vector.
w	The weights to calculate the weighted binary z-Difference
na.rm	Should NAs be removed or not. If NAs exists in dataset and na.rm=FALSE then an error will occure.
r	digits to round the returned value, default is 2

Value

The function returns the calculated z-Difference as a numeric value.

Author(s)

Tim Filla

Examples

#generate the data. The weights are taken from uniform distribution and the
#values of x are generated from a bernoulli distribution with success rate 0.3.
#The reference variable is chosen from a bernoulli distribution with success rate 0.8.
ref<-sample(0:1,1000,replace=TRUE,prob=c(0.2,0.8))
erg<-unlist(lapply(1:1000,function(z){
  w<-runif(1000)
  x<-rnorm(1000,1,0.3)
  zdifference_var(x,ref,w)
}))
hist(erg,breaks=50,main="z-difference for continuous data")
plot(seq(0.005,0.97,0.01),quantile(erg,seq(0.005,0.97,0.01)),type="l",
lwd=3,xlab=c("quantile"),ylab=c("x-value"))
points(seq(0.005,0.97,0.01),qnorm(seq(0.005,0.97,0.01)),col="red",type="l",lwd=3,lty=2)
legend("topleft",legend=c("N(0,1) distribution","sample distribution"),lty=c(2,1),
lwd=c(3,3),col=c("red","black"),cex=1.3)

weightedZdiff documentation built on Aug. 18, 2020, 5:07 p.m.