descstat: Creates a descriptive statistics table for continuous...

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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
)

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".

Details

The resulting table offers the main central and dispersion statistics.

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.

Author(s)

Christian Salas-Eljatib and Tomas Cayul.

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)

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