GetDescriptives: Get Purchase Task Descriptive Summary

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Get Purchase Task Descriptive Summary

Description

Calculates descriptive statistics from purchase task data.

Usage

GetDescriptives(
  dat,
  bwplot = FALSE,
  outdir = "../plots/",
  device = "png",
  filename = "bwplot"
)

Arguments

dat	Dataframe (long form)
bwplot	Boolean. If TRUE, a ggplot2 box and whisker plot is saved. Default is FALSE.
outdir	Character. Directory where plot will be saved. Be sure to include trailing '/'. Default location is one level up in "../plots/".
device	Character. Type of file. Default is "png". Can be "pdf".
filename	Character. Specify filename. Defualt is "bwplot".

Details

GetDescriptives() has been superseded by get_descriptive_summary(), which provides a modern S3 interface with standardized methods (print(), summary(), plot()). GetDescriptives() will continue to work but is no longer recommended for new code.

Provides the following descriptive statistics from purchase task data at each price: mean consumption, median consumption, standard deviation of consumption, proportion of 0 values, number of NAs, minimum consumption, and maximum consumption.

Value

Dataframe with descriptive statistics

Author(s)

Brent Kaplan [e-mail]

See Also

get_descriptive_summary() for the modern interface

Examples

GetDescriptives(apt)

beezdemand documentation built on March 3, 2026, 9:07 a.m.