descriptive - Calculation of descriptive statistics

The function descriptive calculates the main descriptive statistics of a vector of data.

descriptive(x)

Arguments

x

Data vector.

References

Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988). The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.

Examples

data(carbone)
descriptive(carbone)
#> $mean
#> [1] 2.6214
#> 
#> $median
#> [1] 2.7
#> 
#> $mode
#> [1] 2.75
#> 
#> $variance
#> [1] 1.02796
#> 
#> $Skewness
#> [1] 0.36815
#> 
#> $Kurtosis
#> [1] 0.10494
#> 
#> $minimum
#> [1] 0.39
#> 
#> $maximum
#> [1] 5.56
#> 
#> $n
#> [1] 100
#>