mean.grouped.data {actuar}R Documentation

Arithmetic Mean

Description

Mean of grouped data objects.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'grouped.data':
mean(x, ...)

Arguments

x an object of class "grouped.data".
... further arguments passed to or from other methods.

Details

The mean of grouped data with group boundaries c[1], ..., c[r] and group frequencies n[1], ..., n[r] is

sum(j; (c[j - 1] + c[j])/2 * n[j]).

Value

A named vector of means.

Author(s)

Vincent Goulet vincent.goulet@act.ulaval.ca

References

Klugman, S. A., Panjer, H. H. and Willmot, G. E. (1998), Loss Models, From Data to Decisions, Wiley.

See Also

grouped.data to create grouped data objects; emm to compute higher moments.

Examples

data(gdental)
mean(gdental)

[Package actuar version 1.0-2 Index]