mads: Median absolute deviation

In jmbarbone/qpm: Quantitative Psychological Methods

Description

Computes the median absolute deviation.

Usage

mads(x, scale = 1.482602, .f = median, ...)

abs_dev(x, .f = median, ..., scale = 1.4826)

Arguments

scale	A scaling factor; defaults to 1.482602
.f	The centering function
...	Additional arguments passed to '.f'

See Also

[stats::mad()]

Examples

## standard implementation
mads(iris[,1])
mads(iris[1:2])
mads(iris[1:2], scale = 1)

mads(iris$Sepal.Width, mean, na.rm = TRUE) %>% head()
mads(iris$Sepal.Width, function(x) mean(x / 2)^3) %>% head() ## for demonstration

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