descstat {datana}

A function that prepares a descriptive statistics table for continuous variables.

Description

Function that creates a descriptive statistics table for all continuous variables in a dataframe excluding missing values.

Usage

descstat(data = data, decnum = NA)

Arguments

data

a dataframe containing variables as columns.

decnum

the number of decimals to be used in the output.

Value

This function wraps descriptive statistics into a summarize table having the following descriptive statistics: sample size, minimum, maximum, mean, median, SD, and coefficient of variation (

Author(s)

Christian Salas-Eljatib and Tomas Cayul.

Examples

#creating a fake dataframe
set.seed(1234)
df <- as.data.frame(cbind(variable1=rnorm(5, 0), variable2=rnorm(5, 2)))
## adding one missing value
df[3,1] <- NA
df
#using the function
descstat(data=df)
descstat(data=df,decnum=1)
descstat(df,2)