descriptive: Descriptive

In nivesh22/descriptive: Generate Descriptive Statistics and Export them as a Formatted Excel File

Description

This function generates a descriptive statistics of the data - similar to what proc tabulate procedure does in SAS

Usage

descriptive(ADS, vars = c(), type = "categorical", strata = list(),
  strata_label = list(), numeric_summary = "min+mean+median+sd+max",
  percent = "col", vars_label = c(), test = NULL)

Arguments

ADS	The input data frame.
vars	a vector consisting of all the variable names for which the descriptive has to be generated
type	a string indicating the type of descriptive to be generated. The possible values are "categorical","binary","continuous" with default being categorical. For binary, all the variables must have only 0 and 1 as possible values
strata	a list of vectors consisting of the names of the stratification variables. The variables in a vector will be stratified in the order given.
strata_label	The label for the strata variables. The size should be as same as that of the strata
numeric_summary	Only applicable to type="continuous". The summary functions can be mentioned as a string seperated by '+'
percent	Applicable to type "categorical" and "binary". It helps in generating percentage frequency of the variable. The possible values are "col","row" and "null". If unspecified there will be no percentage stats in the output
vars_label	The label for the "vars" The size should be as same as that of the strata
test	a string denoting the test which has to be conducted for calculating the p value

Value

A list with descriptive table and other input parameters

Author(s)

Nivesh Elangovanraaj, [e-mail]

References

The function is built on the top of a package named "tables" [tables::tabular()]

Examples

descriptive(ADS,vars=c("country","race"),percent="col")

nivesh22/descriptive documentation built on Jan. 22, 2020, 8:03 p.m.