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##CHANGE VARNAME TO YOUR VARIABLE NAME; CHANGE TITLES AND X-AXIS LABELS
frequency(wave5addhealth$VARNAME, title= "Frequency Distribution of YOUR VARIABLE DESCRIPTION")
#INTERPRET THE RESULT OF THE LINE ABOVE
frequency(wave5addhealth$VARNAME, cumulative.percent=TRUE, title="YOUR VARIABLE DESCRIPTION")
#INTERPRET THE RESULT OF THE LINE ABOVE
ggplot(data=subset(wave5addhealth, !is.na(VARNAME)), aes(x = VARNAME)) +
geom_bar(color="blue", fill="yellow", aes(y = ((..count..)/sum(..count..)))) +
scale_y_continuous(labels = scales::percent) +
ggtitle("Bar Graph of of YOUR VARIABLE DESCRIPTION, Wave 5 Add Health") +
labs(y="Percent", x="CATEGORIES") +
theme(axis.text.x=element_text(angle=-25))
#INTERPRET THE RESULT OF THE LINE ABOVE
ggplot(data = wave5addhealth, aes(x = VARNAME)) +
geom_histogram(color="blue", fill="green", binwidth =1, aes(y=(..count../sum(..count..))*100)) +
ggtitle("Distribution of YOUR VARIABLE DESCRIPTION, Add Health Wave 5") +
labs(y="Percent", x="UNIT OF MEASUREMENT")
#INTERPRET THE RESULT OF THE LINE ABOVE
MODE(wave5addhealth$VARNAME)
#INTERPRET THE RESULT OF THE LINE ABOVE
median(as.numeric(wave5addhealth$VARNAME), na.rm=TRUE)
#INTERPRET THE RESULT OF THE LINE ABOVE
summary(wave5addhealth$VARNAME, na.rm=TRUE)
#INTERPRET THE RESULT OF THE LINE ABOVE
sd(wave5addhealth$VARNAME, na.rm=TRUE)
#INTERPRET THE RESULT OF THE LINE ABOVE
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