median of binned values
Martin Tomko wrote:
Dear list,
I have a vector (array, table row, whatever is best) of frequency values
for categories (or bins), and I need to find the median category.
Trivial to do by hand, but I was wondering if there is a means to do it
in R in an elegant way.
The obvious medioan(vector) returns the median frequency for the binns,
and that is not what I want. i.e,:
freq
cat1 1
cat2 10
cat3 100
cat4 1000
cat5 10000
I want it to return cat5, instead of cat3.
df <- data.frame(binname = as.factor(paste("cat", 1:5, sep="")),
freq = c(1,10,100,1000,10000))
df
binname freq
1 cat1 1
2 cat2 10
3 cat3 100
4 cat4 1000
5 cat5 10000
with(df, levels(binname)[median(rep(as.numeric(binname), freq))])
[1] "cat5"
Thanks a lot Martin
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