Descriptive Analysis in R Programming

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In Descriptive analysis, we are describing our data with the help of various representative
methods like using charts, graphs, tables, excel files, etc. In the descriptive analysis, we
describe our data in some manner and present it in a meaningful way so that it can be
easily understood. Most of the time it is performed on small data sets and this analysis
helps us a lot to predict some future trends based on the current findings. Some measures
that are used to describe a data set are measures of central tendency and measures of
variability or dispersion.
Process of Descriptive Analysis

The measure of central tendency
Measure of variability
Measure of central tendency

It represents the whole set of data by a single value. It gives us the location of central
points. There are three main measures of central tendency:
Mean
Mode
Median
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Measure of variability
Measure of variability is known as the spread of data or how well is our data is
distributed. The most common variability measures are:
Range
Variance
Standard deviation
Need of Descriptive Analysis

Descriptive Analysis helps us to understand our data and is a very important part of
Machine Learning. This is due to Machine Learning being all about making predictions. On
the other hand, statistics is all about drawing conclusions from data, which is a necessary
initial step for Machine Learning. Let’s do this descriptive analysis in R.
Descriptive Analysis in R
Descriptive analyses consist of describing simply the data using some summary statistics
and graphics. Here, we’ll describe how to compute summary statistics using R software.
Import your data into R:
Before doing any computation, first of all, we need to prepare our data, save our data in
external .txt or .csv files and it’s a best practice to save the file in the current directory.
After that import, your data into R as follow:
Get the csv file here.
# R program to illustrate
# Descriptive Analysis
# Import the data using read.csv()

myData = read.csv("CardioGoodFitness.csv",
stringsAsFactors = F)
# Print the first 6 rows
print(head(myData))
Output:
Product Age Gender Education MaritalStatus Usage Fitness Income Miles

1 TM195 18 Male 14 Single 3 4 29562 112
2 TM195 19 Male 15 Single 2 3 31836 75
3 TM195 19 Female 14 Partnered 4 3 30699 66
4 TM195 19 Male 12 Single 3 3 32973 85
5 TM195 20 Male 13 Partnered 4 2 35247 47
6 TM195 20 Female 14 Partnered 3 3 32973 66
R functions for computing descriptive analysis:
Mean
It is the sum of observations divided by the total number of observations. It is also defined
as average which is the sum divided by count.
where n = number of terms
Example:

# Compute the mean value

mean = mean(myData$Age)
print(mean)
Output:
[1] 28.78889
Median
It is the middle value of the data set. It splits the data into two halves. If the number of
elements in the data set is odd then the center element is median and if it is even then the
median would be the average of two central elements.
where n = number of terms
Example:

# Compute the median value

median = median(myData$Age)
print(median)
Output:
[1] 26
Mode
It is the value that has the highest frequency in the given data set. The data set may have
no mode if the frequency of all data points is the same. Also, we can have more than one
mode if we encounter two or more data points having the same frequency.
Example:
# Import the library

library(modeest)

# Compute the mode value

mode = mfv(myData$Age)
print(mode)
Output:
[1] 25
Range
The range describes the difference between the largest and smallest data point in our
data set. The bigger the range, the more is the spread of data and vice versa.
Range = Largest data value – smallest data value
Example:

# Calculate the maximum

max = max(myData$Age)
# Calculate the minimum
min = min(myData$Age)
# Calculate the range
range = max - min
cat("Range is:\n")
print(range)
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# Alternate method to get min and max
r = range(myData$Age)
print(r)
Output:
Range is:
[1] 32
[1] 18 50
Variance
It is defined as an average squared deviation from the mean. It is being calculated by

finding the difference between every data point and the average which is also known as
the mean, squaring them, adding all of them, and then dividing by the number of data
points present in our data set.
where,
N = number of terms
u = Mean
Example:

# Calculating variance
variance = var(myData$Age)
print(variance)
Output:
[1] 48.21217
Standard Deviation
It is defined as the square root of the variance. It is being calculated by finding the Mean,
then subtract each number from the Mean which is also known as average and square the
result. Adding all the values and then divide by the no of terms followed the square root.
where,
N = number of terms
u = Mean
Example:

myData = read.csv("CardioGoodFitness.csv", stringsAsFactors = F)
# Calculating Standard deviation

std = sd(myData$Age)
print(std)
Output:
[1] 6.943498
Some more R function used in Descriptive Analysis:
Quartiles
A quartile is a type of quantile. The first quartile (Q1), is defined as the middle number
between the smallest number and the median of the data set, the second quartile (Q2) –
the median of the given data set while the third quartile (Q3), is the middle number
between the median and the largest value of the data set.
Example:

# Calculating Quartiles
quartiles = quantile(myData$Age)
print(quartiles)
Output:
0% 25% 50% 75% 100%

18 24 26 33 50
Interquartile Range
The interquartile range (IQR), also called as midspread or middle 50%, or technically H-
spread is the difference between the third quartile (Q3) and the first quartile (Q1). It
covers the center of the distribution and contains 50% of the observations.
IQR = Q3 – Q1
Example:

# Calculating IQR
IQR = IQR(myData$Age)
print(IQR)
Output:
[1] 9
summary() function in R
The function summary() can be used to display several statistic summaries of either one
variable or an entire data frame.
Summary of a single variable:
Example:

# Calculating summary
summary = summary(myData$Age)
print(summary)
Output:
Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max.

18.00 24.00 26.00 28.79 33.00 50.00
Summary of the data frame
Example:

# Calculating summary
summary = summary(myData)
print(summary)
Output:
Product Age Gender Education

Length:180 Min. :18.00 Length:180 Min. :12.00
Class :character 1st Qu.:24.00 Class :character 1st Qu.:14.00
Mode :character Median :26.00 Mode :character Median :16.00
Mean :28.79 Mean :15.57
3rd Qu.:33.00 3rd Qu.:16.00
Max. :50.00 Max. :21.00
MaritalStatus Usage Fitness Income

Miles
Length:180 Min. :2.000 Min. :1.000 Min. : 29562 Min.
: 21.0
Class :character 1st Qu.:3.000 1st Qu.:3.000 1st Qu.: 44059 1st
Qu.: 66.0
Mode :character Median :3.000 Median :3.000 Median : 50597 Median
: 94.0
Mean :3.456 Mean :3.311 Mean : 53720 Mean
:103.2
3rd Qu.:4.000 3rd Qu.:4.000 3rd Qu.: 58668 3rd
Qu.:114.8
Max. :7.000 Max. :5.000 Max. :104581 Max.
:360.0

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Need of Descriptive Analysis

Import your data into R:

Get the csv file here.

# Import the data using read.csv()

Product Age Gender Education MaritalStatus Usage Fitness Income Miles

R functions for computing descriptive analysis:

where n = number of terms

# Import the data using read.csv()

# Compute the mean value

where n = number of terms

# Import the data using read.csv()

# Compute the median value

# Import the library

# Import the data using read.csv()

# Compute the mode value

Range = Largest data value – smallest data value

# Import the data using read.csv()

# Calculate the maximum

It is defined as an average squared deviation from the mean. It is being calculated by

# Import the data using read.csv()

# Import the data using read.csv()

# Calculating Standard deviation

Some more R function used in Descriptive Analysis:

# Import the data using read.csv()

0% 25% 50% 75% 100%

# Import the data using read.csv()

Summary of a single variable:

# Import the data using read.csv()

Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max.

Summary of the data frame

# Import the data using read.csv()

Product Age Gender Education

MaritalStatus Usage Fitness Income

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