Calculating Percentage From Your Contingency Table
Have a look at the contingency table of tobacco consumption and education you made in the last exercise. It's saved in your console as st
. Let's use it to calculate some percentages!
In this exercise you need to report your answers to one decimal place. You are free to do this manually, but if you want a quick way to do this through R you can use the round()
function. The first argument of round()
is the value that you want to round (this can be in the form of a raw number, or an equation), and the second argument is digits =
, where you specify the number of decimal places you want the number rounded to. For instance, round(12.6734, digits = 2)
would return the value 12.67
.
This exercise is part of the course
Basic Statistics
Exercise instructions
- In your console, calculate the percentage of high school students who smoke 0-9g of tobacco per day.
- In your console, calculate what percentage of students who smoke the most are in university.
- Type your answers to one decimal place (without a percentage symbol) into your script
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# What percentage of high school students smoke 0-9g of tobacco?
# Of the students who smoke the most, what percentage are in university?