[R] variation

[Jannis]

Sorry, my remark about the variance and standard deviation was nonsense!
  There are functions for both measures in R!


Jannis

Jannis schrieb:
> As far as I know there is no such function (i could be wrong here!). The 
> reason for that might be that it is so straightforward to calculate it 
> as the ratio of sd() and mean()....for similar reasons there is most 
> probably no function for the variance (and only one for std.dev)....I 
> would think that the easiest solution for you is to create the function 
> (~3 lines of code) yourself!
> 
> Cheers
> Jannis
> 
> Adel ESSAFI schrieb:
>> 2010/6/5 Adel ESSAFI <adel.safi at imag.fr>
>>
>>  
>>> 2010/6/5 Jannis <bt_jannis at yahoo.de>
>>>
>>> What exactly do you mean by "variation"? As I understand it, this 
>>> term is a
>>>    
>>>> broad term for all kinds of different "spread measures" (like 
>>>> quantile range
>>>> or standard deviation). Do you mean the Coefficient of Variation? If 
>>>> you
>>>> found out how to
>>>>       
>>>     
>> Yes, that what I mean. But I looked for ready  function :)
>>
>>
>>
>>  
>>> Yes, that what I mean. But I looked for ready  function :)
>>>
>>>
>>>    
>>>> compute the mean and the std.dev., it is straightforward to calculate
>>>> it.....
>>>>
>>>> Adel ESSAFI schrieb:
>>>>
>>>>      
>>>>> Hi list
>>>>> I am a new user of R. I ask for some "beginner" question
>>>>>
>>>>> I am searching if there is any function that computes the variation of
>>>>> some
>>>>> discrete values of a vector (mean() and sd() exists, but i have not 
>>>>> find
>>>>> variation).
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance
>>>>>
>>>>> Adel
>>>>>
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