average: Compute weighted means and medians.
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average

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Compute weighted means and medians.

Description

Calculate the weighted average that maximizes the maximum likelihood estimator

Usage

average(x, w = rep(1, length(x)), type = "mean", na.rm = FALSE)

Arguments

`x`	A numeric vector with the values to be averaged.
`w`	A vector of weights of the same length as `x`.
`type`	A character string, either: 'mean' or 'L2' (the default), such that a weighted mean is computed using `weightedMean`; or 'median' or 'L1', such that a weighted median is computed using `weightedMedian`.
`na.rm`	Should `NA` values be ignored? Default is `na.rm = FALSE`.

Value

A numeric value, representing the weighted mean or median

Examples


# Create dummy values
x = runif(10,1,100)
w = runif(10,1,10)

# Compute weighted mean
average(x, w, type = 'mean')

# Compute weighted median
average(x, w, type = 'median')

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