The goal of describe is to make it easy to compute descriptive
statistics for non-normal distributions without creating custom
functions or spending hours researching stack overflow. This package
also provides flexible and intuitive univariate and multiple data
imputation and visualizations for exploratory data analysis.
You can install the development version of this package through the
devtools package.
devtools::install_github("jpmonteagudo28/describe")You can also install it from CRAN:
install.packages("describe")describe aims to help researchers and analysts during the exploratory
phase of their analysis. This package allows you to compute almost any
measure of central tendency, bootstrapped correlation confidence
intervals, impute missing values, visualize missing patterns and a few
other things.
The package makes it easy to generate correlated data with missing patterns according to all three missingness mechanisms, missing completely at random (MCAR), missing at random (MAR), and missing not at random (MNAR).
#library(describe)
# Generate random data with NAs
# data <- gen.mcar(50,rho = .467,sigma = c(1,1.3),n_vars = 2, na_prob = .10)
# Impute missing values using predictive mean matching
# imputed_data <- pmean.match(data, robust = TRUE, verbose = TRUE)
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