FactoMineR (version 2.9)

descfreq: Description of frequencies

Description

Description of the rows of a contingency table or of groups of rows of a contingency table

Usage

descfreq(donnee, by.quali = NULL, proba = 0.05)

Value

Returns a list with the characterization of each rows or each group of the by.quali. A test corresponding to the hypergeometric distribution is performed and the probability to observe a more extreme value than the one observed is calculated. For each row (or category), each of the columns characterising the row are sorted in ascending order of p-value.

Arguments

donnee

a data frame corresponding to a contingency table (quantitative data)

by.quali

a factor used to merge the data from different rows of the contingency table; by default NULL and each row is characterized

proba

the significance threshold considered to characterized the category (by default 0.05)

Author

Francois Husson

References

Lebart, L., Morineau, A. and Piron, M. (1995) Statistique exploratoire multidimensionnelle, Dunod.

See Also

catdes, condes, textual

Examples

data(children)
descfreq(children[1:14,1:5])    ## desc of rows
descfreq(t(children[1:14,1:5])) ## desc of columns