BasicDescription function

Basic descriptive sataistics

Basic descriptive sataistics of several variables by the categories of a factor.

BasicDescription(X, groups = NULL, SortByGroups = FALSE, na.rm = FALSE, Intervals = TRUE)

Arguments

• X: A data frame or a matrix containing several numerical variables
• groups: A factor with the groupings
• SortByGroups: Sorting by groups
• na.rm: a logical value indicating whether NA values should be stripped before the computation proceeds.
• Intervals: Should the confidence intervals be calculated?

Details

Basic descriptive sataistics of several variables by the categories of a factor.

Returns

A list with the description of each variable.

Author(s)

Jose Luis Vicente Villardon

Examples

data(wine)
BasicDescription(wine[,4:8], groups = wine$Origin)