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descstat

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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)

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".

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","height")]
## using the function
descstat(data=df.h)
descstat(data=df.h,decnum=1,eng=FALSE)
descstat(df.h,2)

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