descriptive.summary {ig}R Documentation

Descriptive summary of the data

Description

The function descriptive.summary() gives a descriptive summary of the data.

Usage

descriptive.summary(x)

Arguments

x Vector of observations.

Details

The function descriptive.summary() gives a descriptive summary of the data containing: mean, median, mode, standard deviation, coefficients of variation, skewness and kurtosis, range, minimum, maximum and the number de observations. This function uses the command basicStats() of the R package named Fbasics and the command search.mode() that allows to find the empirical mode of the data.

Value

The function descriptive.summary() carries out a descriptive summary of the data

Author(s)

Víctor Leiva <victor.leiva@uv.cl>, Hugo Hernández <hugo.hernandez@msn.com>, and Antonio Sanhueza <asanhue@ufro.cl>.

Examples

## Generates a sample from the IGTD
## Produces a descriptive summary of the data
x<-rig(300,mu=1,lambda=1,kernel="normal")
descriptive.summary (x)

[Package ig version 1.0 Index]