Mean - Median absolute deviation of a vector {Rfast}R Documentation

Mean - Median absolute deviation of a vector

Description

Mean - Median absolute deviation of a vector.

Usage

mad2(x,method = "median",na.rm=FALSE)
Mad(x,method = "median",na.rm=FALSE)

Arguments

x

A numerical vector.

method

A character vector with values "median", for median absolute deviation or "mean", for mean absolute deviation.

na.rm

A logical value TRUE/FALSE to remove NAs.

Value

The mean absolute deviation.

Author(s)

Michail Tsagris

R implementation and documentation: Michail Tsagris <mtsagris@yahoo.gr>

See Also

colMads, Median, colMedians

Examples

x <- Rnorm(1000)
Mad(x)
mad(x)

[Package Rfast version 2.0.0 Index]