rv (version 2.3.2)

median.rv: Distribution of the Sample Median

Description

Compute the distribution sample median of the vector of values given as its argument.

Usage

# S3 method for rv
median(x, na.rm = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

x

a randomv vector containing the components whose distribution of the median value is to be computed.

na.rm

a logical value indicating whether NA values should be stripped before the computation proceeds.

…

further arguments passed to median

References

Kerman, J. and Gelman, A. (2007). Manipulating and Summarizing Posterior Simulations Using Random Variable Objects. Statistics and Computing 17:3, 235-244. See also vignette("rv").

See Also

rvmedian for the componentwise medians. quantile for general quantiles.

Examples

  x <- rvnorm(10) ## A random vector of length 10.
  median(x)       ## A random scalar (vector of length 1).
  rvmedian(x)     ## A numeric vector of length 10.