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Descriptive Statistics in R-Studio Guide

The document provides an overview of descriptive statistics in R-Studio, detailing measures of central tendency (mean, median) and measures of dispersion (range, standard deviation, variance). It includes specific R commands to calculate these statistics using a defined variable 'X1'. Additionally, it mentions the need to install the 'psych' package for using the 'describe' command to obtain comprehensive descriptive statistics.

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Descriptive Statistics in R-Studio Guide

The document provides an overview of descriptive statistics in R-Studio, detailing measures of central tendency (mean, median) and measures of dispersion (range, standard deviation, variance). It includes specific R commands to calculate these statistics using a defined variable 'X1'. Additionally, it mentions the need to install the 'psych' package for using the 'describe' command to obtain comprehensive descriptive statistics.

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Descriptive Statistics in R-Studio

By crackeconomicsandstatistics on 1 Jan 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Introduction

Descriptive statistics are used to describe and represent the data we have. There are two types of
descriptive statistics: Measures of Central Tendency and Measures of Dispersion.

Let’s take the following example to calculate the descriptive statistics in R-Studio.

Define a variable, “X1” in R-Studio as follows:

 X1 <- c(2,5,10,23,12,15,1,16,31)
 X1
 Press Run button or Ctrl+Enter to execute the command.

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Measures of Central Tendency

This measure identifies the central position of the data to describe it. For example mean, median
and mode.

Mean

Write this command in R Script: mean (X1) → Press Run to execute the command.

Ans:

mean (X1)
[1] 12.77778

Median

Write this command in R Script: median (X1) → Press Run to execute the command.

Ans:

median (X1)
[1] 12

Measures of Dispersion
This measures the dispersion in the data. In other words, it shows the scattering of the data. For
example, range, standard deviation, variance, etc.

Maximum and Minimum Value:

Write this command in R Script: max (X1) and min (X1) → Press Run to execute the command.

Ans:

max (X1)
[1] 31
min (X1)
[1] 1

Range:

Write this command in R Script: range (X1) → Press Run to execute the command.

Ans:

range (X1)
[1] 1 31

Standard Deviation

Write this command in R Script: sd (X1) → Press Run to execute the command.

Ans:

sd (X1)
[1] 9.846037

Variance

Write this command in R Script: sd (X1) → Press Run to execute the command.

Ans:

var (X1)
[1] 96.94444

The following two commands are useful to find all the descriptive statistics together:

1. Summary command: Write this command in R Script: summary (X1) → Press Run to
execute the command.
Ans:

summary (X1)
Min. 1stQu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max.
1.00 5.00 12.00 12.78 16.00 31.00

2. Describe command: Write this command in R Script: describe (X1) → Press Run to execute
the command.

Ans:

describe (X1)
vars n mean sd median trimmed mad min max range skew kurtosis se
X1 1 9 12.78 9.85 12 12.78 10.38 1 31 30 0.44 -1.13 3.28

We need to download the “psych” package to use the describe command. Kindly follow the
procedure mentioned below:

 [Link] (“psych”)
 library (psych)

[Link]

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