| shorth {prada} | R Documentation |
Calculate the midpoint of the shorth
shorth(x, na.rm=FALSE)
x |
Numeric |
na.rm |
Logical |
The shorth is the shortest interval that covers half of the
values in x. Its midpoint is the median of the data values
that lie in the shorth and can be used as an
estimator of the mode of the distribution that generated x.
The midpoint of the short of x.
Wolfgang Huber http://www.ebi.ac.uk/huber
x <- c(rnorm(100), runif(100) * 10) mean(x) median(x) shorth(x)