rescale: Transform a variable to have a particular mean and standard...

In dustinfife/fifer: A Biostatisticians Toolbox for Various Activities, Including Plotting, Data Cleanup, and Data Analysis

Description

This function will take a variable and transform it such that it has a particular mean and variance

Usage

rescale(x, new.mean, new.sd)

Arguments

x	A vector containing the data the user wishes to transform
new.mean	The desired mean of the dataset
new.sd	The desired sd of the dataset

Author(s)

Dustin Fife

Examples

x = rnorm(100, 0, 1)
## transform to have a mean of 20 and sd of 5
x.new = rescale(x, 50, 5)
mean(x.new); sd(x.new)

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