QnDispersion

QnDispersion[list]

gives the statistic of the elements in list.

QnDispersion[list,c]

gives the statistic with a scaling factor c.

Details and Options

  • QnDispersion is a robust measure of dispersion.
  • QnDispersion is a rank-based estimator with its statistic based on absolute pairwise differences. The statistic does not require location estimation.
  • For the list {x1,x2,,xn}, the value of the statistic is given by the first quartile of the set {xi xj,i<j} multiplied by a scaling factor c.
  • When c is not specified, a scaling factor is applied to make the statistic a consistent estimator of the scale parameter for normally distributed data. Also, a finite sample correction is used by default to make the estimator unbiased for small samples.
  • QnDispersion[{{x1,y1,},{x2,y2,},}] gives {QnDispersion[{x1,x2,}],QnDispersion[{y1,y2,}],}.
  • QnDispersion supports a Method option. The following explicit settings can be specified:
  • "FiniteSample"uses finite sample correction (default)
    "None"no correction
  • The option Method is ignored if the scaling factor c is specified in the input.

Examples

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Basic Examples  (3)

QnDispersion of a list:

QnDispersion of columns of a matrix:

QnDispersion of a list with scaling factor 1:

Scope  (6)

Exact input yields exact output when the scaling factor is exact:

QnDispersion with different scaling parameters:

QnDispersion for a matrix gives a columnwise estimate:

QnDispersion of a large array:

Find a QnDispersion of a TimeSeries:

The dispersion depends only on the values:

QnDispersion works with data involving quantities:

Options  (1)

Method  (1)

Finite sample correction is applied as default:

Without small sample correction:

Applications  (6)

Obtain a robust estimate of dispersion when extreme values are present:

Sample standard deviation is heavily influenced by extreme values:

Identify periods of high volatility in stock data using a five-year moving dispersion:

Compute dispersion for slices of a collection of paths of a random process:

Choose a few slice times:

Plot dispersion over these paths:

Find the dispersion of the heights for the children in a class:

Plot the dispersion with respect to the median:

Consider data from standard normal distribution with outliers modeled by another normal distribution with large spread:

Test the data against standard normal distribution:

Compute the dispersion:

Remove outliers by selecting data points that are within three times the dispersion from the sample median:

Test the new data against standard normal distribution:

Generate data from a Student distribution:

Compute the dispersion of the data with three measures: standard deviation, square root of trimmed variance and dispersion:

Assess the accuracy of these three dispersion estimators via bootstrapping:

estimator gives the smallest spread with the given data:

Properties & Relations  (2)

QnDispersion is a rank-based dispersion estimator with its statistic based on pairwise absolute differences:

Pick the positive values among the differences and compute the order statistic using RankedMin:

Compare with QnDispersion with scaling factor equal to 1:

Histogram of pairwise differences with a red line indicating the value of the statistic:

QnDispersion, SnDispersion and StandardDeviation are estimators of the scale parameter of NormalDistribution:

Assess the accuracy of the estimators via bootstrapping:

Compute the relative efficiencies with respect to StandardDeviation, using the estimated results:

Wolfram Research (2017), QnDispersion, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/QnDispersion.html.

Text

Wolfram Research (2017), QnDispersion, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/QnDispersion.html.

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2017. "QnDispersion." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/QnDispersion.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2017). QnDispersion. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/QnDispersion.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2023_qndispersion, author="Wolfram Research", title="{QnDispersion}", year="2017", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/QnDispersion.html}", note=[Accessed: 19-March-2024 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2023_qndispersion, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={QnDispersion}, year={2017}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/QnDispersion.html}, note=[Accessed: 19-March-2024 ]}