datana (version 1.1.2)

descstat: 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 = 3,
  eng = TRUE,
  full = FALSE,
  reduced = FALSE,
  all.outputs = FALSE
)

Value

This function wraps descriptive statistics into a summarize table having the following statistics: sample size, minimum, maximum, mean, median, SD, and coefficient of variation. If the "full" option is set to "TRUE", the following statistics will be added to the table: 25th and 75th percentiles, the interquartile range, skewness, and kurtosis.

Arguments

data

a dataframe containing numeric variables as columns.

decnum

the number of decimals to be used in the output. The default is set to 3.

eng

logical; if "TRUE" (by default), the language of the statistics will be in English; if "FALSE" will be in Spanish. descriptive statistics. The default is to "FALSE".

full

logical; if "TRUE", the output includes some extra descriptive statistics. The default is to "FALSE".

reduced

logical; if "TRUE", the output includes the same descriptive statistics as using the summary() basis R function.

all.outputs

logical; if "TRUE", the returns several elements as results of the function, which can be of importance for further analyses later on. The default is to "FALSE".

Author

Christian Salas-Eljatib and Tomas Cayul.

Details

The resulting table offers the main central and dispersion statistics.

References

• Salas-Eljatib C. 2021. Análisis de datos con el programa estadístico R: una introducción aplicada. Ediciones Universidad Mayor. Santiago, Chile. https://eljatib.com

Examples

df <- datana::idahohd
head(df)
df.h<-df[,c("dbh","toth")]
## using the function
descstat(data=df.h)
descstat(data=df.h,decnum=1,eng=FALSE)
descstat(df.h,2)
descstat(df.h,2,full=TRUE)
descstat(df.h,2,reduced=TRUE)