Dear all,
The incredibly useful Hmisc package provides a method to generate summary
tables that can be typeset in latex. The Alzola and Harrell book "An
introduction to S and the Hmisc and Design libraries" provides an example
that generates mean and quartiles for continuous variables, and numbers
and percentages for count variables: summary() with method = 'reverse'.
I wonder if there is a way to change it so the mean and standard
deviation are reported instead for continuous variables.
I illustrate my question below using an example from the book.
Thank you.
Keith
Newer versions of Hmisc have an option to add mean and SD for
method='reverse'. Quartiles are always there.
Frank
> ####
> library(Hmisc)
>
> set.seed(173)
> sex = factor(sample(c("m", "f"), 500, rep = T))
> age = rnorm(500, 50, 5)
> treatment = factor(sample(c("Drug", "Placebo"), 500, rep = T))
> summary(sex ~ treatment, fun = table)
sex N=500
+---------+-------+---+---+---+
| | |N |f |m |
+---------+-------+---+---+---+
|treatment|Drug |263|140|123|
| |Placebo|237|133|104|
+---------+-------+---+---+---+
|Overall | |500|273|227|
+---------+-------+---+---+---+
>
>
>
> (x = summary(treatment ~ age + sex, method = "reverse"))
> # generates quartiles for continuous variables
Descriptive Statistics by treatment
+-------+--------------+--------------+
| |Drug |Placebo |
| |(N=263) |(N=237) |
+-------+--------------+--------------+
|age |46.5/49.9/53.2|46.7/50.0/53.4|
+-------+--------------+--------------+
|sex : m| 47% (123) | 44% (104) |
+-------+--------------+--------------+
>
>
> # latex(x) generates a very nicely formatted table
> # but I'd like "mean (standard deviation)" instead of quartiles.
+ s <- apply(y, 2,
+ function(z) {
+ z <- z[!is.na(z)]
+ n <- length(z)
+ if(n==0) c(NA,NA,NA,0) else
+ if(n==1) c(z, NA,NA,1) else {
+ m <- mean(z)
+ s <- sd(z)
+ c(N=n, Mean=m, SD=s)
+ }
+ })
+ w <- as.vector(s)
+ names(w) <- as.vector(outer(rownames(s), colnames(s), paste, sep=''))
+ w
+ }
>
> summary(treatment ~ age + sex, method = "reverse", fun = g)
> # does not work, 'fun' or 'FUN" argument is ignored.
Descriptive Statistics by treatment
+-------+--------------+--------------+
| |Drug |Placebo |
| |(N=263) |(N=237) |
+-------+--------------+--------------+
|age |46.5/49.9/53.2|46.7/50.0/53.4|
+-------+--------------+--------------+
|sex : m| 47% (123) | 44% (104) |
+-------+--------------+--------------+
>
>
> (x1 = summarize(cbind(age), llist(treatment), FUN = g,
stat.name=c("n", "mean", "sd")))
treatment n mean sd
1 Drug 263 49.9 4.94
2 Placebo 237 50.1 4.97
>
> # this works but table is rotated, and it count data has to be
> # treated separately.
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Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Medicine
Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University