descstat {datana} | R Documentation |
Creates a descriptive statistics table for continuous variables
Description
Function to create a descriptive statistics table for continuous variables from a dataframe.
Usage
descstat(data = data, decnum = 4, full = FALSE)
Arguments
data |
a dataframe containing numeric variables as columns. |
decnum |
the number of decimals to be used in the output. |
full |
TRUE for a longer output (i.e. more descriptive statistics). The default is to FALSE. |
Details
The resulting table offers the main central and dispersion statistics.
Value
This function wraps descriptive statistics into a summarize table having the following descriptive statistics: sample size, minimum, maximum, mean, median, SD, and coefficient of variation. If the full option is set to TRUE, the following statistics are added to the table: 25th and 75th percentiles, the interquartile range, skewness, and kurtosis.
Author(s)
Christian Salas-Eljatib and Tomas Cayul.
Examples
#creating a ficticiuos dataframe
set.seed(1234)
df <- as.data.frame(cbind(variable1=rnorm(5, 0), variable2=rnorm(5, 2)))
## adding one missing value
df[3,1] <- NA
df
#' #using the function
descstat(data=df)
descstat(data=df,decnum=1)
descstat(df,2)
[Package datana version 1.0.5 Index]