| CentralValue {DescTools} | R Documentation |
This function obtains a statistic of centrality of a variable given a sample of its values.
CentralValue(x, weights = NULL)
x |
a vector of values (the sample). |
weights |
a numerical vector of weights the same length as |
If the variable is numeric it returns the median of the given sample, if it is a factor it returns the mode. In other cases it tries to convert to a factor and then returns the mode.
A number if the variable is numeric. A string with the name of the most frequent nominal value, otherwise.
Luis Torgo ltorgo@dcc.fc.up.pt
Torgo, L. (2010) Data Mining using R: learning with case studies, CRC Press (ISBN: 9781439810187).
http://www.dcc.fc.up.pt/~ltorgo/DataMiningWithR
# An example with numerical data
x <- rnorm(100)
CentralValue(x)
# An example with nominal data
y <- factor(sample(1:10, 200, replace=TRUE), levels=1:10,
labels=paste('v', 1:10, sep=''))
CentralValue(y)