point.estimates: Calculate a point estimate

In Maarten14C/IntCal: Radiocarbon Calibration Curves

Calculate a point estimate

Description

Calculate a point estimate of a calibrated distribution - either the weighted mean, the median or the mode (maximum). Note that point estimates often tend to be very poor representations of entire calibrated distributions, so please be careful and do not reduce entire calibrated distributions to just 1 point value.

Usage

point.estimates(
  calib,
  wmean = TRUE,
  median = TRUE,
  mode = TRUE,
  midpoint = TRUE,
  prob = 0.95,
  rounded = 1
)

Arguments

calib	The calibrated distribution, as returned from caldist()
wmean	Report the weighted mean (defaults to TRUE)
median	Report the median (defaults to TRUE)
mode	Report the mode, which is the year with the maximum probability (defaults to TRUE)
midpoint	Report the midpoint of the hpd range(s)
prob	probability range for the hpd range(s)
rounded	Rounding for reported probabilities. Defaults to 1 decimal.

Value

The chosen point estimates

Examples

point.estimates(caldist(130,20))
plot(tmp <- caldist(2450,50), type='l')
abline(v=point.estimates(tmp), col=1:4)

Maarten14C/IntCal documentation built on Oct. 11, 2023, 1:25 a.m.