MKmisc (version 1.9)

fiveNS: Five-Number Summaries

Description

Function to compute five-number summaries (minimum, 1st quartile, median, 3rd quartile, maximum)

Usage

fiveNS(x, na.rm = TRUE, type = 7)

Value

A numeric vector of length 5 containing the summary information.

Arguments

x

numeric vector

na.rm

logical; remove NA before the computations.

type

an integer between 1 and 9 selecting one of nine quantile algorithms; for more details see quantile.

Author

Matthias Kohl

Details

In contrast to fivenum the functions computes the first and third quartile using function quantile.

See Also

fivenum, quantile

Examples

x <- rnorm(100)
fiveNS(x)
fiveNS(x, type = 2)
fivenum(x)