get_type: Get the type of variables.

In matthiasspeidel/hmi: Hierarchical Multiple Imputation

Description

Function checks wether a variable is: ...

• continuous (numeric values),

• semicontinuous (numeric values with more than 5% of them are 0),

• rounded continuous (if continuous values are rounded to the closest multiple of 5, 10, 50, 100, 500 or 1000. We see this to be the case if more than 50% of the observations are devisable by 5)

• count data (if all values are integers).

• an intercept (the same value for all observations),

• binary (two different values - like 0s and 1s or "m" and "f"),

• categorical (the variable is a factor or has more than 3 different values)

• orderd categorical (the categorical variable is ordered.)

Usage

get_type(variable)

Arguments

variable

A variable (vector) from your data set.

Value

A character denoting the type of variable.

Examples

get_type(iris$Sepal.Length); get_type(iris$Species)

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