diff_in_means {permutest}R Documentation

Calculate difference in means

Description

This function takes a data frame, and group and outcome column names as input and returns the difference in mean outcome between the two groups

Usage

diff_in_means(df, group_col, outcome_col, treatment_value = NULL)

Arguments

df

A data frame

group_col

The name of the column in df that corresponds to the group label

outcome_col

The name of the column in df that corresponds to the outcome variable

treatment_value

The value of group_col to be considered 'treatment'

Value

The difference in mean outcome between the two groups

Examples

data <- data.frame(group = c(rep(1, 4), rep(2, 4)),
                   outcome = c(rep(3, 4), rep(5, 4)))

diff_in_means(df = data,
              group_col = "group",
              outcome_col = "outcome",
              treatment_value = 1)


[Package permutest version 1.0.0 Index]