summary_stats {summariser}

Calculate summary statistics on a data frame

Description

Functions from dplyr are used to automate the process of calculating basic summary statistics on a data frame. Returned statistics include mean, standard deviation, standard error, count, and 95 confidence intervals from a normal distribution (summary_stats) and from a t-distribution (summary_stats.t)

Usage

summary_stats(data, measure, type)

Arguments

data

a data frame

measure

a numeric variable. Response variable - summary statistics will be returned for this variable

type

a string variable. Controls whether a normal or t distribution is used for CI calculation. Defaults to "norm".

Examples

library(summariser)
library(dplyr)
iris %>%
  summary_stats(Sepal.Length)