[R] DescTools::Quantile

2024-01-26 Thread Michael Meyer via R-help
Greetings, I am having a problem with DescTools::Quantile (a function computing quantiles from weighted samples): # these sum to one probWeights = c( 0.0043, 0.0062, 0.0087, 0.0119, 0.0157, 0.0204, 0.0257, 0.0315, 0.0378, 0.0441, 0.0501, 0.0556, 0.06, 0.0632, 0.0648, 0.0648, 0.0632, 0.

Re: [R] Use of geometric mean .. in good data analysis

2024-01-26 Thread Simon, Stephen D.
Sorry to prolong a thread on something that is clearly off topic, but when Michael Meyer wrote >by using the geometric mean all asymptotic results no longer apply. that is flat our wrong. It's true that the geometric mean converges to something different that E[X], but it does indeed have an a