summary_by_group: Summary Statistics of Numerical Variable by Group

In stat545ubc-2021/functions-SylvieShen: What the Package Does (One Line, Title Case)

Description

Get the summary statistics (max, min, mean and median) of a numerical variable across the groups of a categorical variable.

Usage

summary_by_group(numeric_vector, group_vector)

Arguments

numeric_vector	An vector of class "numeric", each numerical value is a part of one observation row. To make the name of parameter be more specific, I named it as "numeric_vector".
group_vector	An vector which represents the group type of each numeric value in the "numeric_vector" one by one. To emphasize the group type, I named it as "group_vector".

Value

An object of class "data.frame" that contains the summary statistics of each group type.

Examples

summary_by_group(c(1.5, 7.6, 3.0, 4.7, 8, 8.4), c("A", "C", "A", "B", "B", "A"))
summary_by_group(datateachr::vancouver_trees$diameter, datateachr::vancouver_trees$genus_name)

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