[R] Searching for specific functions

[Adaikalavan Ramasamy]

1) I am not sure why you want the biased version but here are two ways
to do this. Also if you have large enough sample size, it would not
matter much.

	my.var1 <- function(x) mean( (x - mean(x))^2 )
	my.var2 <- function(x) mean( x^2 - mean(x)^2 )

2) Look at quantiles function. Your equation might correspond to one of
the types given there.

Regards, Adai



On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 10:46 +0200, Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti wrote:
>   Hello everybody (I'm new here)
> 
>   I am looking for 2 specific functions. The first one is a variance
> formula that does not divide by n-1 (I don't want the unbiased formula,
> that's it). In case it does not exist, how do I modify the default
> function code? Yes, a workaround would be to multiply the result by n-1
> and then divide it by n, but I'd like to use a separate function, if
> possible.
> 
>   The other function I'm looking for it's a median formula like this one:
> 
> http://www.faberitius.com/prototipo/gfx/clip_image002_0000.gif
> 
>   Where "Li" is the exact lower limit of the critical interval, "nb" is
> the number of cases that lie below the critical interval, "nd" the number
> of cases inside the mentioned interval, and "I" is the range of the
> interval itself. As you can see this formula calculates the median in
> categorical structured data.
> 
>   I couldn't find any functions that match the results done by hand... is
> there a contrib package out there that may help me? Should I program the
> function on my own?
> 
>   Thanks in advance,
> 
>            Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti
> 
> 
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