desiR (version 1.2.2)

d.overall: Combine individual desirabilities

Description

Combines any number of desirability values into an overall desirability.

Usage

d.overall(..., weights = NULL)

Arguments

...

Any number of individual desirabilities.

weights

Allows some desirabilities to count for more in the overall calculation. Defaults to equal weighting.

Value

Numeric vector of desirability values.

Details

This function takes any number of individual desirabilities and combines them with a weighted geometric mean to give an overall desirability. The weights should be chosen to reflect the importance of the variables. The values of the weights do not matter, only their relative differences. Therefore weights of 4, 2, 1 are the same as 1, 0.5, 0.25. In both cases the second weight is half of the first, and the third weight is a quarter of the first.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
set.seed(1)
x1 <- rnorm(1000, mean=100, sd =5) # generate data
x2 <- rnorm(1000, mean=100, sd =5) 

d1 <- d.high(x1, cut1=90, cut2=110, scale=1)
d2 <- d.low(x2, cut1=90, cut2=110, scale=1)

D <- d.overall(d1, d2, weights=c(1, 0.5))
plot(rev(sort(D)), type="l")
# }