moments {spatialEco}

moments

Description

Calculate statistical moments of a distribution

Usage

moments(x, plot = FALSE)

Arguments

x

numeric vector

plot

plot of distribution (TRUE/FALSE)

Value

A vector with the following values:

• min Minimum

• 25th 25th percentile

• mean Arithmetic mean

• gmean Geometric mean

• hmean Harmonic mean

• median 50th percentile

• 7th5 75th percentile

• max Maximum

• stdv Standard deviation

• var Variance

• cv Coefficient of variation (percent)

• mad Median absolute deviation

• skew Skewness

• kurt Kurtosis

• nmodes Number of modes

• mode Mode (dominate)

Author(s)

Jeffrey S. Evans [e-mail]

Examples

x <- runif(1000,0,100)
( d <- moments(x, plot=TRUE) )
( mode.x <- moments(x, plot=FALSE)[16] )