moreStats {nFactors}

Statistical Summary of a Data Frame

Description

This function produces another summary of a data.frame. This function was proposed in order to apply some functions globally on a data.frame: quantile, median, min and max. The usual R version cannot do so.

Usage

moreStats(x, quantile = 0.95, show = FALSE)

Arguments

x

numeric: matrix or data.frame

quantile

numeric: quantile of the distribution

show

logical: if TRUE prints the quantile choosen

Value

numeric: data.frame of statistics: mean, median, quantile, standard deviation, minimum and maximum

Author(s)

Gilles Raiche
Centre sur les Applications des Modeles de Reponses aux Items (CAMRI)
Universite du Quebec a Montreal
[e-mail]

See Also

plotuScree, nScree, plotnScree, plotParallel

Examples

## ................................................
## GENERATION OF A MATRIX OF 100 OBSERVATIONS AND 10 VARIABLES
x   <- matrix(rnorm(1000),ncol=10)

## STATISTICS
res <- moreStats(x, quantile=0.05, show=TRUE)
res