describe {Bolstad2}R Documentation

Give simple descriptive statistics for a matrix or a data frame

Description

This function is designed to emulate the Minitab function DESCRIBE. It gives simple descriptive statistics for a data frame

Usage

describe(x, varNames = NULL)

Arguments

x A matrix or data.frame with numeric entries. Different variables are represented by columns.
varNames A vector of variable names for each of the columns

Value

A data.frame containing the following elements:

N The number of observations for each variable
mean The sample mean for each variable
stdev The sample standard deviation
sterr The standard error of the mean
min The minimum
q1 The lower quartile
med The median
q3 The upper quartile
max The maximum

Examples

data(poissonTest.df)
describe(poissonTest.df)

[Package Bolstad2 version 1.0-26 Index]