mean {nexus}

Compositional Mean

Description

Compositional Mean

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'CompositionMatrix'
mean(x, ..., na.rm = FALSE)

Arguments

x

A CompositionMatrix object.

...

Currently not used.

na.rm

A logical scalar: should missing values be removed?

Details

Closed vector of the columns geometric means.

Value

A numeric vector.

Author(s)

N. Frerebeau

References

Aitchison, J. (1986). The Statistical Analysis of Compositional Data. London: Chapman and Hall, p. 64-91.

See Also

Other statistics: aggregate(), covariance(), dist, mahalanobis(), margin(), metric_var(), quantile(), scale(), variation()

Examples

## Data from Aitchison 1986
data("hongite")

## Coerce to compositional data
coda <- as_composition(hongite)

## Mean
mean(coda)

## Quantile
quantile(coda)

## Metric variance
metric_var(coda)

## Metric standard deviation
metric_sd(coda)