skedastic (version 1.0.0)

countpeaks: Count peaks in a data sequence

Description

This function computes the number of peaks in a double vector, with peak defined as per Goldfeld65;textualskedastic. The function is used in the Goldfeld-Quandt nonparametric test for heteroskedasticity in a linear model. NA and NaN values in the sequence are ignored.

Usage

countpeaks(x)

Arguments

x

A double vector.

Value

An integer value between 0 and length(x) - 1 representing the number of peaks in the sequence.

References

See Also

goldfeld_quandt

Examples

# NOT RUN {
set.seed(9586)
countpeaks(stats::rnorm(20))
mtcars_lm <- lm(mpg ~ wt + qsec + am, data = mtcars)
countpeaks(mtcars_lm$residuals)

# }