gender: Predict genders from first names

In pmerckle/firstnamer: Set of Functions Using First Name Databases

Description

This function predicts the genders of a vector of first names.

Usage

gender(firstname, year_min = 1900, year_max = 2017, freq = FALSE)

Arguments

firstname	first name as a character string.
year_min	starting year of the period over which the prediction is computed.
year_max	ending year of the period over which the prediction is computed.
freq	return the probability of the first name being male

Value

The predicted genders based on the proportions of males and females with the input first names. Possible values are either "male" or "female". NAs are returned when the input first names are unknown in the database. If freq is set to TRUE, the function returns the probabilities of the first names being male.

See Also

gender_unique, is_male, is_female

Examples

gender(c("Baptiste", "Henriette")

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