BiocGenerics (version 0.18.0)

mad: Median Absolute Deviation

Description

Compute the median absolute deviation for a vector, dispatching only on the first argument, x.

NOTE: This man page is for the mad S4 generic function defined in the BiocGenerics package. See ?stats::mad for the default method (defined in the stats package). Bioconductor packages can define specific methods for objects not supported by the default method.

Usage

mad(x, center = median(x), constant = 1.4826, na.rm = FALSE, low = FALSE, high = FALSE)

Arguments

x, center, constant, na.rm, low, high

See ?stats::mad.

Value

See ?stats::mad for the value returned by the default method.Specific methods defined in Bioconductor packages should behave as consistently as possible with the default method.

See Also

• stats::mad for the default mad method.

• showMethods for displaying a summary of the methods defined for a given generic function.

• selectMethod for getting the definition of a specific method.

• BiocGenerics for a summary of all the generics defined in the BiocGenerics package.

Examples

mad
showMethods("mad")
selectMethod("mad", "ANY")  # the default method