npcv: Non-parametric coefficient of variation

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npcvR Documentation

Non-parametric coefficient of variation

Description

Calculates a non-parametric version of the coefficient of variation where the standard deviation is replaced by the median absolute deviations (see mad for details) and divided by the absolute value of the mean.

Note that the mad of a single value is 0 (as opposed to NA for the standard deviation, see example below).

Usage

npcv(x, na.rm = TRUE)

Arguments

x

A numeric.

na.rm

A logical (default is TRUE indicating whether NA values should be stripped before the computation of the median absolute deviation and mean.

Value

A numeric.

Author(s)

Laurent Gatto

Examples

set.seed(1)
npcv(rnorm(10))
replicate(10, npcv(rnorm(10)))
npcv(1)
mad(1)
sd(1)

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