5.6: Computing a Cumulative Distribution (Section 4.2.2)

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Let’s compute a cumulative distribution for the SleepHrsNight variable in NHANES. This looks very similar to what we saw in the previous section.

# create summary table for relative frequency of different
# values of SleepHrsNight 

SleepHrsNight_cumulative <- 
  NHANES_unique %>%
  # drop NA values for SleepHrsNight variable
  drop_na(SleepHrsNight) %>%
  # remove other variables
  dplyr::select(SleepHrsNight) %>%
  # group by values
  group_by(SleepHrsNight) %>%
  # create summary table
  summarize(AbsoluteFrequency = n()) %>%
  # create relative and cumulative frequencies
  mutate(
    RelativeFrequency = AbsoluteFrequency / sum(AbsoluteFrequency),
    CumulativeDensity = cumsum(RelativeFrequency)
  )

kable(SleepHrsNight_cumulative)

SleepHrsNight	AbsoluteFrequency	RelativeFrequency	CumulativeDensity
2	9	0.00	0.00
3	49	0.01	0.01
4	200	0.04	0.05
5	406	0.08	0.13
6	1172	0.23	0.36
7	1394	0.28	0.64
8	1405	0.28	0.92
9	271	0.05	0.97
10	97	0.02	0.99
11	15	0.00	1.00
12	17	0.00	1.00