smoothmad

 Calculates a smoothed version of the median absolute deviation (MAD).

 -- Function File: MAD = smoothmad (X)
 -- Function File: MAD = smoothmad (X, GROUP)
 -- Function File: MAD = smoothmad (X, GROUP, CONSTANT)

     'MAD = smoothmad (X)' calculates a smoothed version of the median
     absolute deviation (MAD) for each column of the data in x. The
     statistics are scaled by a constant of 1.41 to make the estimator
     consistent with the standard deviation for normally distributed data.
 
     'MAD = smoothmad (X, GROUP)' defines group membership of the rows
     of x and returns the pooled smooth MAD. GROUP must be a numeric
     vector with the same number of rows as x.

     'MAD = smoothmad (X, GROUP, CONSTANT)' sets the CONSTANT to scale
     the value of the MAD. (Default is 1.41).

  smoothmad (version 2023.05.02)
  Author: Andrew Charles Penn
  https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrew_Penn/

  Copyright 2019 Andrew Charles Penn
  This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
  (at your option) any later version.

  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  GNU General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with this program.  If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/

Package: statistics-resampling