imed_describe: Descriptive statistics for a guarded analysis set

In imedR: Guarded Evidence Synthesis for the Indian Microplastics Evidence Database

Descriptive statistics for a guarded analysis set

Description

Descriptive statistics for a guarded analysis set

Usage

imed_describe(x, value = "Mean", group = NULL)

Arguments

x	An 'imed_db', or a measurement-level data frame such as the output of 'imed_analysis_set()'. The comparability guard is applied, so the records must belong to one compatible comparability class.
value	Name of the numeric measurement field to summarise (default '"Mean"').
group	Optional grouping field (unquoted or quoted name).

Value

A 'tibble' with the columns 'n' (number of finite values), 'mean', 'sd', 'median', 'q1', 'q3', 'min' and 'max'. If 'group' is supplied there is one row per group, with the grouping field as the first column.

Examples

toy <- data.frame(
  Study_ID = paste0("S", 1:12),
  Comparability_Class = "CLASS_A",
  Reported_Unit = "items/L",
  Metric_Type = "Abundance",
  Strict_Synthesis_Eligibility = "YES",
  Group = rep(c("g1", "g2"), 6),
  Mean = c(2.1, 3.4, 1.8, 4.0, 2.9, 3.1, 2.4, 3.8, 1.9, 3.3, 2.7, 4.2),
  SD = rep(c(0.6, 0.9), 6),
  N = rep(c(10, 12, 8), 4)
)
imed_describe(toy)
imed_describe(toy, group = "Group")

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