weightedMedian {laeken}

Weighted median

Description

Compute the weighted median (Eurostat definition).

Usage

weightedMedian(x, weights = NULL, sorted = FALSE, na.rm = FALSE)

Arguments

x

a numeric vector.

weights

an optional numeric vector giving the sample weights.

sorted

a logical indicating whether the observations in x are already sorted.

na.rm

a logical indicating whether missing values in x should be omitted.

Details

The implementation strictly follows the Eurostat definition.

Value

The weighted median of values in x is returned.

Author(s)

Andreas Alfons and Matthias Templ

References

Working group on Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (2004) Common cross-sectional EU indicators based on EU-SILC; the gender pay gap. EU-SILC 131-rev/04, Eurostat.

See Also

arpt, incMedian, weightedQuantile

Examples

data(eusilc)
weightedMedian(eusilc$eqIncome, eusilc$rb050)