describeMean: Describe the mean

In Gmisc: Descriptive Statistics, Transition Plots, and More

Describe the mean

Description

A function that returns a description of a continuous variable using the mean together with the standard deviation. The standard deviation is used as it is "industry standard" to use mean with standard deviation and not because it's the only option.

Usage

describeMean(
  x,
  html = TRUE,
  digits = 1,
  digits.nonzero = NA,
  number_first = TRUE,
  useNA = c("ifany", "no", "always"),
  useNA.digits = digits,
  percentage_sign = TRUE,
  plusmin_str,
  language = "en",
  ...
)

Arguments

x	The variable that you want the statistics for
html	If HTML compatible output should be used. If FALSE it outputs LaTeX formatting
digits	The number of decimals used
digits.nonzero	The number of decimals used for values that are close to zero
number_first	If the number should be given or if the percentage should be presented first. The second is encapsulated in parentheses (). This is only used together with the useNA variable.
useNA	This indicates if missing should be added as a separate row below all other. See table for useNA-options. Note: defaults to ifany and not "no" as table does.
useNA.digits	The number of digits to use for the missing percentage, defaults to the overall digits.
percentage_sign	If you want to suppress the percentage sign you can set this variable to FALSE. You can also choose something else that the default % if you so wish by setting this variable. Note, this is only used when combined with the missing information.
plusmin_str	Provide if you want anything other than the plus minus sign suited for the given output format.
language	The ISO-639-1 two-letter code for the language of interest. Currently only english is distinguished from the ISO format using a ',' as the separator in the txtInt function.
...	Passed on to describeFactors

Value

string Returns a string formatted for either LaTeX or HTML

See Also

getDescriptionStatsBy

Other descriptive functions: describeFactors(), describeMedian(), describeProp(), getDescriptionStatsBy(), getPvalWilcox()

Examples

describeMean(1:10)
describeMean(c(1:10, NA), useNA = "always")
describeMean(c(1:10, NA), useNA = "no")

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