Stdrobust function

Standard Deviation Robust

Robust empirical estimation for standard deviation.NaNs are ignored.

Stdrobust(x, lowInnerPercentile=25,na.rm=TRUE)

Arguments

• x: a numerical matrix
• lowInnerPercentile: optional; default=25; standard deviation aproximated by percentilinterval.
• na.rm: a boolean evaluating to TRUE or FALSE indicating whether all non finite values should be stripped before the computation proceeds.

Returns

• out: a vector with the calculated standard deviation for the column

Author(s)

Zornitsa Manolova

See Also

sd

quantile