1. User's Guide
  2. Prepare and Explore Data in the Database
  3. Explore Data
  4. Analyze the Distribution of Numeric Variables

4.2.10 Analyze the Distribution of Numeric Variables

The ore.univariate function provides distribution analysis of numeric variables in an ore.frame.

The ore.univariate function provides these statistics:

  • All statistics reported by the summary function

  • Signed rank test, Student's t-test

  • Extreme values reporting

The ore.univariate function returns an ore.frame as output in all cases.

For details about the function arguments, call help(ore.univariate).

Example 4-65 Calculating the Default Univariate Statistics

This example calculates the default univariate statistics for AGE, YRS_RESIDENCE, and CLASS.

ore.univariate(NARROW, var="AGE,YRS_RESIDENCE,CLASS")

Example 4-66 Calculating the Default Univariate Statistics

This example calculates location statistics for YRS_RESIDENCE.

ore.univariate(NARROW, var="YRS_RESIDENCE", stats="location")

Example 4-67 Calculating the Complete Quantile Statistics

This example calculates complete quantile statistics for AGE and YRS_RESIDENCE.

ore.univariate(NARROW, var="AGE,YRS_RESIDENCE",stats="quantiles")

Parent topic: Explore Data