MetricsWeighted (version 0.5.4)

weighted_var: Weighted Variance

Description

Calculates weighted variance, see stats::cov.wt or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample_mean_and_covariance#Weighted_samples for details.

Usage

weighted_var(x, w = NULL, method = c("unbiased", "ML"), na.rm = FALSE, ...)

Value

A length-one numeric vector.

Arguments

x

Numeric vector.

w

Optional non-negative, non-missing case weights.

method

Specifies how the result is scaled. If "unbiased", the denomiator is reduced by -1, unlike "ML". See stats::cov.wt for details.

na.rm

Should missing values in x be removed? Default is FALSE.

...

Further arguments passed to stats::cov.wt.

See Also

weighted_mean.

Examples

weighted_var(1:10)
weighted_var(1:10, w = NULL)
weighted_var(1:10, w = rep(1, 10))
weighted_var(1:10, w = 1:10)
weighted_var(1:10, w = 1:10, method = "ML")