Descriptive Statistics Function for a Dataset Array
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Dear all,
Is there a single function that returns the basic descriptive statistics from a dataset array?
Something like the summary function but more complete
Thanks in advance,
Diego
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Peter Perkins
on 4 Dec 2012
Diego, the grpstats function ordinarily works on groups within data, but it will compute summary stats on complete variables as well if you pass in [] as the grouping variable. Hope this helps.
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Teja Muppirala
on 4 Dec 2012
Perhaps you could write a simple routine using the DATASETFUN function to calculate all the stats you wanted?
For example:
% Just a sample dataset
DS = cell2dataset([{'Bill' 'Jane' 'Mark' 'Mary'}; num2cell(rand(6,4))])
% Calculate the stats you want
stats = datasetfun(@(x) [mean(x); min(x); max(x); std(x)],DS,'Uniform',0);
% Now display the result in a a new dataset
myStats = dataset(stats{:},'VarNames',get(DS,'VarNames'),'ObsNames',{'Mean' 'Min' 'Max' 'St Dev.'});
disp(myStats);
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