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descriptr

Generate descriptive statistics

Installation

# Install release version from CRAN
install.packages("descriptr")

# Install development version from GitHub
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("rsquaredacademy/descriptr")

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Usage

We will use a modified version of the mtcars data set in the below examples. The only difference between the data sets is related to the variable types.

str(mtcarz)
#> 'data.frame':    32 obs. of  11 variables:
#>  $ mpg : num  21 21 22.8 21.4 18.7 18.1 14.3 24.4 22.8 19.2 ...
#>  $ cyl : Factor w/ 3 levels "4","6","8": 2 2 1 2 3 2 3 1 1 2 ...
#>  $ disp: num  160 160 108 258 360 ...
#>  $ hp  : num  110 110 93 110 175 105 245 62 95 123 ...
#>  $ drat: num  3.9 3.9 3.85 3.08 3.15 2.76 3.21 3.69 3.92 3.92 ...
#>  $ wt  : num  2.62 2.88 2.32 3.21 3.44 ...
#>  $ qsec: num  16.5 17 18.6 19.4 17 ...
#>  $ vs  : Factor w/ 2 levels "0","1": 1 1 2 2 1 2 1 2 2 2 ...
#>  $ am  : Factor w/ 2 levels "0","1": 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
#>  $ gear: Factor w/ 3 levels "3","4","5": 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 ...
#>  $ carb: Factor w/ 6 levels "1","2","3","4",..: 4 4 1 1 2 1 4 2 2 4 ...

Continuous Data

Summary Statistics

ds_summary_stats(mtcarz, mpg)
#> -------------------------------- Variable: mpg --------------------------------
#> 
#>                         Univariate Analysis                          
#> 
#>  N                       32.00      Variance                36.32 
#>  Missing                  0.00      Std Deviation            6.03 
#>  Mean                    20.09      Range                   23.50 
#>  Median                  19.20      Interquartile Range      7.38 
#>  Mode                    10.40      Uncorrected SS       14042.31 
#>  Trimmed Mean            19.95      Corrected SS          1126.05 
#>  Skewness                 0.67      Coeff Variation         30.00 
#>  Kurtosis                -0.02      Std Error Mean           1.07 
#> 
#>                               Quantiles                               
#> 
#>               Quantile                            Value                
#> 
#>              Max                                  33.90                
#>              99%                                  33.44                
#>              95%                                  31.30                
#>              90%                                  30.09                
#>              Q3                                   22.80                
#>              Median                               19.20                
#>              Q1                                   15.43                
#>              10%                                  14.34                
#>              5%                                   12.00                
#>              1%                                   10.40                
#>              Min                                  10.40                
#> 
#>                             Extreme Values                            
#> 
#>                 Low                                High                
#> 
#>   Obs                        Value       Obs                        Value 
#>   15                         10.4        20                         33.9  
#>   16                         10.4        18                         32.4  
#>   24                         13.3        19                         30.4  
#>    7                         14.3        28                         30.4  
#>   17                         14.7        26                         27.3

Frequency Distribution

ds_freq_table(mtcarz, mpg)
#>                               Variable: mpg                               
#> |-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
#> |    Bins     | Frequency | Cum Frequency |   Percent    | Cum Percent  |
#> |-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
#> | 10.4 - 15.1 |     6     |       6       |    18.75     |    18.75     |
#> |-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
#> | 15.1 - 19.8 |    12     |      18       |     37.5     |    56.25     |
#> |-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
#> | 19.8 - 24.5 |     8     |      26       |      25      |    81.25     |
#> |-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
#> | 24.5 - 29.2 |     2     |      28       |     6.25     |     87.5     |
#> |-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
#> | 29.2 - 33.9 |     4     |      32       |     12.5     |     100      |
#> |-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
#> |    Total    |    32     |       -       |    100.00    |      -       |
#> |-----------------------------------------------------------------------|

Categorical Data

One Way Table

ds_freq_table(mtcarz, cyl)
#>                              Variable: cyl                              
#> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#> Levels     Frequency    Cum Frequency       Percent        Cum Percent  
#> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#>    4          11             11              34.38            34.38    
#> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#>    6           7             18              21.88            56.25    
#> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#>    8          14             32              43.75             100     
#> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#>  Total        32              -             100.00              -      
#> -----------------------------------------------------------------------

Two Way Table

ds_cross_table(mtcarz, cyl, gear)
#>     Cell Contents
#>  |---------------|
#>  |     Frequency |
#>  |       Percent |
#>  |       Row Pct |
#>  |       Col Pct |
#>  |---------------|
#> 
#>  Total Observations:  32 
#> 
#> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#> |              |                           gear                            |
#> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#> |          cyl |            3 |            4 |            5 |    Row Total |
#> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#> |            4 |            1 |            8 |            2 |           11 |
#> |              |        0.031 |         0.25 |        0.062 |              |
#> |              |         0.09 |         0.73 |         0.18 |         0.34 |
#> |              |         0.07 |         0.67 |          0.4 |              |
#> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#> |            6 |            2 |            4 |            1 |            7 |
#> |              |        0.062 |        0.125 |        0.031 |              |
#> |              |         0.29 |         0.57 |         0.14 |         0.22 |
#> |              |         0.13 |         0.33 |          0.2 |              |
#> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#> |            8 |           12 |            0 |            2 |           14 |
#> |              |        0.375 |            0 |        0.062 |              |
#> |              |         0.86 |            0 |         0.14 |         0.44 |
#> |              |          0.8 |            0 |          0.4 |              |
#> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#> | Column Total |           15 |           12 |            5 |           32 |
#> |              |        0.468 |        0.375 |        0.155 |              |
#> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Group Summary

ds_group_summary(mtcarz, cyl, mpg)
#>                                        mpg by cyl                                         
#> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#> |     Statistic/Levels|                    4|                    6|                    8|
#> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#> |                  Obs|                   11|                    7|                   14|
#> |              Minimum|                 21.4|                 17.8|                 10.4|
#> |              Maximum|                 33.9|                 21.4|                 19.2|
#> |                 Mean|                26.66|                19.74|                 15.1|
#> |               Median|                   26|                 19.7|                 15.2|
#> |                 Mode|                 22.8|                   21|                 10.4|
#> |       Std. Deviation|                 4.51|                 1.45|                 2.56|
#> |             Variance|                20.34|                 2.11|                 6.55|
#> |             Skewness|                 0.35|                -0.26|                -0.46|
#> |             Kurtosis|                -1.43|                -1.83|                 0.33|
#> |       Uncorrected SS|              8023.83|              2741.14|              3277.34|
#> |         Corrected SS|               203.39|                12.68|                 85.2|
#> |      Coeff Variation|                16.91|                 7.36|                16.95|
#> |      Std. Error Mean|                 1.36|                 0.55|                 0.68|
#> |                Range|                 12.5|                  3.6|                  8.8|
#> |  Interquartile Range|                  7.6|                 2.35|                 1.85|
#> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Multiple Variable Statistics

ds_tidy_stats(mtcarz, mpg, disp, hp)
#> # A tibble: 3 x 16
#>   vars    min   max  mean t_mean median  mode range variance  stdev  skew
#>   <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>  <dbl>  <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>    <dbl>  <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 disp   71.1 472   231.   228    196.  276.  401.   15361.  124.   0.420
#> 2 hp     52   335   147.   144.   123   110   283     4701.   68.6  0.799
#> 3 mpg    10.4  33.9  20.1   20.0   19.2  10.4  23.5     36.3   6.03 0.672
#> # ... with 5 more variables: kurtosis <dbl>, coeff_var <dbl>, q1 <dbl>,
#> #   q3 <dbl>, iqrange <dbl>

Features

  • Summary statistics
  • Two way tables
  • One way table
  • Group wise summary
  • Multiple variable statistics
  • Multiple one way tables
  • Multiple two way tables

Getting Help

If you encounter a bug, please file a minimal reproducible example using reprex on github. For questions and clarifications, use StackOverflow.

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Functions in descriptr (0.5.2)

ds_hmean

Harmonic Mean
ds_mdev

Mean Absolute Deviation
ds_plot_bar

Generate bar plots
ds_launch_shiny_app

Launch Shiny App
ds_percentiles

Percentiles
ds_group_summary

Groupwise descriptive statistics
ds_range

Range
ds_plot_scatter

Generate scatter plots
ds_group_summary_interact

Category wise descriptive statistics
ds_measures_location

Measures of location
ds_auto_summary_stats

Descriptive statistics and frquency tables
ds_kurtosis

Kurtosis
mtcarz

mtcarz
ds_plot_bar_stacked

Generate stacked bar plots
ds_plot_bar_grouped

Generate grouped bar plots
ds_rindex

Index Values
ds_measures_variation

Measures of variation
ds_mode

Mode
ds_plot_density

Generate density plots
ds_screener

Screen data
hsb

High School and Beyond Data Set
ds_tidy_stats

Tidy descriptive statistics
ds_plot_histogram

Generate histograms
ds_std_error

Standard error of mean
ds_skewness

Skewness
ds_measures_symmetry

Measures of symmetry
ds_tailobs

Tail Observations
ds_plot_box_group

Compare distributions
ds_summary_stats

Descriptive statistics
ds_plot_box_single

Generate box plots
ds_gmean

Geometric Mean
ds_extreme_obs

Extreme observations
ds_cross_table

Two way table
ds_auto_group_summary

Tabulation
descriptr

descriptr package
ds_cvar

Coefficient of Variation
ds_freq_table

Frequency table
ds_css

Corrected Sum of Squares
ds_auto_freq_table

Multiple One & Two Way Tables