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mapStats (version 1.17)

mapStats-package: Geographic display of survey data statistics

Description

mapStats will calculate statistics (mean, total, and quantiles) for survey variables, by geography level (e.g. state, county), and an optional class variable (such as year, if multiple years are included). The statistics for each variable are then plotted on a shapefile with color codes. Statistics may be calculated either weighted or unweighted.

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ll{ Package: mapStats Type: Package Version: 1.11 Date: 2014-02-20 License: GPL (>=2) } To use the package, one should have a survey data.frame with a geographic variable, and a shapefile that displays the boundaries of this geographic variable (such as a map of the United States). The function mapStats is used to call functions calcQuantiles and calcStats to calculate the desired statistics, and then calls plotStats to display these statistics on the provided shapefile. A list of the calculated statistics is returned in mapStats.