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mmstat.attrVar: mmstat.attrVar

Description

Returns the parameters for a variable. If type="numeric" then descriptive measures will be returned. Otherwise absolute and relative frequencies will be returned. For using a subset of observation set index.

Usage

mmstat.attrVar(var, type, index = NULL)

Value

descriptive measures

Arguments

var

vector: values of a mmstat variable

type

character: type of values, allowed are numvars, binvars, ordvars or facvars

index

integer: observation numbers to use for computation, default is to use all observations

Examples

# make sure that no other data sets are loaded
mmstat.set(datasets=NULL)
mmstat.getDataNames(mmstat.rds("CARS"))
# summary of first numeric variable in first data set in mmstat
var <- mmstat.getVar(1, 1, 'numeric')
mmstat.attrVar(var, "numeric")
# summary of first factor variable in first data set in mmstat
var <- mmstat.getVar(1, 1, 'factor')
mmstat.attrVar(var, 'factor')