[R] median of gamma distribution

[Matthias Kohl]

Hi,

to compute the median (or expectation, var, sd, IQR, mad, ...) you can also use package "distrEx".
library(distrEx)
(G <- Gammad())
median(G)

Matthias


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Betreff: Re: [R] median of gamma distribution
Gesendet: Fri, 30. Jun 2006
Von: Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk

> On 30-Jun-06 Philip He wrote:
> > Doese anyone know a R function to find the median of a gamma
> > distribution?
> 
> qgamma will do it. Test:
> 
> > -log(0.5)
> [1] 0.6931472
> > qgamma(0.5,1)
> [1] 0.6931472
> 
> Ted.
> 
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