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tabmeans.svy: Generate Summary Tables of Mean Comparisons for Statistical Reports (Survey Data)

Description

This function compares the mean of a continuous variable across levels of a factor variable and summarizes the results in a clean table for a statistical report. Similar to tabmeans, but for survey data. Relies heavily on the 'survey' package [1,2].

Usage

tabmeans.svy(x, y, svy, latex = FALSE, xlevels = NULL, yname = "Y variable", 
             test = "Wald", decimals = 1, p.decimals = c(2, 3), p.cuts = 0.01, 
             p.lowerbound = 0.001, p.leading0 = TRUE, p.avoid1 = FALSE, n = FALSE)

Arguments

svy
Survey design object created by a call to svydesign [1,2].
x
Character string specifying factor variable name. Must match one of names(svy$variables).
y
Character string specifying continuous variable name. Must match one of names(svy$variables).
latex
If TRUE, object returned will be formatted for printing in LaTeX using xtable [3]; if FALSE, it will be formatted for copy-and-pasting from RStudio into a word processor.
xlevels
Optional character vector to label the levels of x. If unspecified, the function uses the values that x takes on.
yname
Optional label for the continuous variable.
test
Either "Wald" for Wald test or "LRT" for likelihood ratio test to test for equivalent mean y across levels of x.
decimals
Number of decimal places for means and standard deviations or standard errors.
p.decimals
Number of decimal places for p-values. If a vector is provided rather than a single value, number of decimal places will depend on what range the p-value lies in. See p.cuts.
p.cuts
Cut-point(s) to control number of decimal places used for p-values. For example, by default p.cuts is 0.1 and p.decimals is c(2, 3). This means that p-values in the range [0.1, 1] will be printed to two decimal places, while p-values in the range [0, 0.1)
p.lowerbound
Controls cut-point at which p-values are no longer printed as their value, but rather
p.leading0
If TRUE, p-values are printed with 0 before decimal place; if FALSE, the leading 0 is omitted.
p.avoid1
If TRUE, p-values rounded to 1 are not printed as 1, but as >0.99 (or similarly depending on values for p.decimals and p.cuts).
n
If TRUE, the table will have a column for sample size.

Value

  • A character matrix with the requested table comparing mean y across levels of x. If you click on the matrix name under "Data" in the RStudio Workspace tab, you will see a clean table that you can copy and paste into a statistical report or manuscript. If latex is set to TRUE, the character matrix will be formatted for inserting into an Sweave or Knitr report using the xtable package [3].

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References

1. Lumley T (2012). survey: analysis of complex survey samples. R package version 3.28-2, http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=survey. 2. Lumley T (2014). Analysis of complex survey samples. Journal of Statistical Software 9(1): 1-19. 3. Dahl DB (2013). xtable: Export tables to LaTeX or HTML. R package version 1.7-1, http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=xtable. Acknowledgment: This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant No. DGE-0940903.

See Also

svydesign svyglm tabfreq, tabmeans, tabmedians, tabmulti, tabglm, tabcox, tabgee, tabfreq.svy, tabglm.svy,

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