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cv

Coefficient of variation


Description

Compute the coefficient of variation of a numeric vector x, defined as the ratio between the standard deviation and the mean.

Usage

cv(x, na_rm = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

x

numeric. A numeric vector.

na_rm

logical. Should missing values be removed before computing the coefficient of variation?

...

Additional arguments to be passed to mean().

Value

A numeric value, the coefficient of variation.

References


statip

Statistical Functions for Probability Distributions and Regression

v0.2.3
GPL-3
Authors
Paul Poncet [aut, cre], The R Core Team [aut, cph] (C function 'BinDist' copied from package 'stats'), The R Foundation [cph] (C function 'BinDist' copied from package 'stats'), Adrian Baddeley [ctb] (C function 'BinDist' copied from package 'stats')
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