gini_mean_diff: Gini Mean Difference

In yelleKneK/SMSD: Sequential Methods for Study Design

Gini Mean Difference

Description

This function calculates the Gini Mean Difference value. The input is a vector of values for which the Gini Mean Difference is calculated.

Usage

gini_mean_diff(x, na.rm = TRUE)

Arguments

x	The vector of values for which the Gini Mean Difference will be calculated. This vector should be a numeric vector.
na.rm	This parameter controls whether NA values are removed from the data prior to calculation. Default is TRUE.

Value

The calculated Gini Mean Difference.

Examples

# Household money from income brackets (2010) from Table C of
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient. 
x <- c(13.7, 12.0, 10.9, 13.9, 17.7, 11.4, 12.1, 4.5, 3.9)
gini_mean_diff(x)

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