matrixStats (version 0.53.1)

rowWeightedMedians: Calculates the weighted medians for each row (column) in a matrix

Description

Calculates the weighted medians for each row (column) in a matrix.

Usage

rowWeightedMedians(x, w = NULL, rows = NULL, cols = NULL, na.rm = FALSE,
  ...)
colWeightedMedians(x, w = NULL, rows = NULL, cols = NULL, na.rm = FALSE,
  ...)

Arguments

x

A numeric NxK matrix.

w

A numeric vector of length K (N).

rows, cols

A vector indicating subset of rows (and/or columns) to operate over. If NULL, no subsetting is done.

na.rm

If TRUE, missing values are excluded from the calculation, otherwise not.

...

Additional arguments passed to weightedMedian().

Value

Returns a numeric vector of length N (K).

Details

The implementations of these methods are optimized for both speed and memory. If no weights are given, the corresponding rowMedians()/colMedians() is used.

See Also

Internally, weightedMedian() is used. See rowMedians() and colMedians() for non-weighted medians.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
x <- matrix(rnorm(20), nrow = 5, ncol = 4)
print(x)

# Non-weighted row averages
mu_0 <- rowMedians(x)
mu <- rowWeightedMedians(x)
stopifnot(all.equal(mu, mu_0))

# Weighted row averages (uniform weights)
w <- rep(2.5, times = ncol(x))
mu <- rowWeightedMedians(x, w = w)
stopifnot(all.equal(mu, mu_0))

# Weighted row averages (excluding some columns)
w <- c(1, 1, 0, 1)
mu_0 <- rowMedians(x[, (w == 1), drop = FALSE])
mu <- rowWeightedMedians(x, w = w)
stopifnot(all.equal(mu, mu_0))

# Weighted row averages (excluding some columns)
w <- c(0, 1, 0, 0)
mu_0 <- rowMedians(x[, (w == 1), drop = FALSE])
mu <- rowWeightedMedians(x, w = w)
stopifnot(all.equal(mu, mu_0))

# Weighted averages by rows and columns
w <- 1:4
mu_1 <- rowWeightedMedians(x, w = w)
mu_2 <- colWeightedMedians(t(x), w = w)
stopifnot(all.equal(mu_2, mu_1))
# }