Keywords - Function groups - @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Library: stats
See also: quantile

Quantlet: fivenum
Description: computes the five number summary consisting of the minimum and maximum, the quartiles and the median.

Usage: five = fivenum (x)
Input:
x array
xvars optional, p x 1 string vector, variable names. Note, that only up to 15 characters are used.
Output:
five string output, containing five number summary.

Example:

library("stats")

setenv("outputstringformat", "%s") 

randomize (0)

x = normal (200)

fivenum (x)

Result:

Contents of five

[ 1,] 

[ 2,] ================================================== 

[ 3,]  Five number summary 

[ 4,] -------------------------------------------------- 

[ 5,]    Minimum            -2.7801947 

[ 6,]    25% Quartile      -0.59753362 

[ 7,]    Median           -0.064324884 

[ 8,]    75% Quartile       0.54136684 

[ 9,]    Maximum             2.4442013 

[10,] ================================================== 

[11,] 


Library: stats
See also: quantile

Keywords - Function groups - @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Author: TTK, Marlene Mueller, 970903
(C) MD*TECH Method and Data Technologies, 21.9.2000