rank.wt: Ranks a numeric variable taking weights into account. Mimics...

In decomp: Various functions to quantify and decompose health inequalities

Description

This function calculates the weighted fractional ranks of a numeric variable.

Usage

rank.wt(x, wt)

Arguments

x	numeric vector
wt	weights

Value

a numeric vector containing weighted fractional ranks of the elements of x.

Author(s)

Peter Konings

References

Kakwani et al., 1997.

Examples

x <- sample(1:10, size = 10, replace = TRUE)
x.weight <- seq(0, 1, length.out = 10)
rank.wt(x, wt = x.weight)

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