standard              package:rflowcyt              R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Standardize a numeric vector by its median and median absolute
     deviation (MAD).

_U_s_a_g_e:

     standard(x)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

       x: the data vector to be standardized 

_V_a_l_u_e:

     returns the standardized version of x

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Kevin Rader

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Silverman, B.W. (1981). Using Kernel Density Estimates to
     Investigate Multimodality. J. Royal Statistical Society B, 43,
     97-99.

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     'get.h', 'get.p', 'emp.f', 'get.num.modes'

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

      set.seed(12345)
      x<-rnorm(50,2,3)
      x1<-standard(x)
      c(median(x1),mad(x1))

