Calculate Summary Statistics

Calculate summary statistics from a data frame by group. Currently supports the mean, median and standard deviation.

Usage

calc_summary_stats(samples, summarise_by = NULL)

Arguments

samples

A data.table containing at least a value variable

summarise_by

A character vector of variables to group by.

Value

A data.table containing the upper and lower bounds for the specified credible interval

Examples

samples <- data.frame(value = 1:10, type = "car")
# default
calc_summary_stats(samples)
#>    median mean      sd
#> 1:    5.5  5.5 3.02765
#  by type
calc_summary_stats(samples, summarise_by = "type")
#>    type median mean      sd
#> 1:  car    5.5  5.5 3.02765