MeanCent {multiDimBio}

A function to scale data to mean 0

Description

This function rescales the columns in a data matrix to have mean 0. The variance is not scaled and missing values are ignored in the calculation.

Usage

MeanCent(DATA)

Arguments

DATA

A (non-empty) matrix with data values. Columns should be different traits and rows unique observations of those traits

Value

Returns a matrix with the same dimensions as DATA.

See Also

ZTrans, PercentMax

Examples

data(Nuclei)

colMeans(Nuclei, na.rm=TRUE)

Nuclei.MC<-MeanCent(Nuclei)

colMeans(Nuclei.MC, na.rm=TRUE)