sampcov: Sample Covariance (biased)

In coxjohn/Lab1Intro: Lab1Intro

Description

Returns a (biased) covariance matrix for a data matrix

Usage

sampcov(x, varnames = NULL)

Arguments

x	a data set
varnames	a list of variable names

Details

Accepts a data set and creates a $p\times p$ covariance matrix, where p is the number of variables. The function also accepts variable names that will be used to lable the columns of the matrix. These results are biased, as they use $\frac1n$ in the definition of the variance, rather than $\frac1n-1$.

Examples

sampcov(data, c("WEIGHT", "LENGTH", "DENSITY"))

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