Descriptive Statistics and Visualization Cheat Sheet (by T. T.

Pham)

Managing Data

Data Import and Export Data Types

caseread Read case names from file mat2dataset Convert matrix to dataset array
casewrite Write case names to file cell2dataset Convert cell array to dataset
array
export Write dataset array to file table2dataset Convert table to dataset array
tblread Read tabular data from file dataset2cell Convert dataset array to cell
array
tblwrite Write tabular data to file dataset2struct Convert dataset array to
structure
tdfread Read tab-delimited file dataset2table Convert dataset array to table
xlsread Read Microsoft Excel export Write dataset array to file
spreadsheet file
xptread Create table from data stored ismissing Find dataset array elements
in SAS XPORT format file with missing values

Descriptive Statistics Hypothesis Tests

geomean Geometric mean chi2gof Chi-square goodness-of-fit test
harmmean Harmonic mean kstest One-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov
test
trimmean Mean excluding outliers kstest2 Two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov
test
nanmean Mean ignoring NaN values lillietest Lilliefors test
nanmedian Median ignoring NaN values ranksum Wilcoxon rank sum test
kurtosis Kurtosis chi2gof Chi-square goodness-of-fit test
moment Central moments kstest One-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov
test
skewness Skewness kstest2 Two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov
test
nanstd Standard deviation ignoring lillietest Lilliefors test
NaN values
nanvar Variance, ignoring NaN ranksum Wilcoxon rank sum test
values
range Range of values chi2gof Chi-square goodness-of-fit test
nanmax Maximum ignoring NaN kstest One-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov
values test
nanmin Minimum ignoring NaN kstest2 Two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov
values test
iqr Interquartile range lillietest Lilliefors test
mad Mean or median absolute ranksum Wilcoxon rank sum test
deviation
prctile Percentiles of a data set Probability Distributions
quantile Quantiles of a data set makedist Create probability distribution
object
zscore Standardized z-scores fitdist Fit probability distribution object to
data
corr Linear or rank correlation dfittool Open Distribution Fitting app
robustcov Robust multivariate cdf Cumulative distribution functions
 covariance and mean
estimate
corrcov Convert covariance matrix to icdf Inverse cumulative distribution
correlation matrix functions
nancov Covariance ignoring NaN pdf Probability density functions
values
grpstats Summary statistics organized proflik Profile likelihood function for
by group probability distribution
tabulate Frequency table binocdf Binomial cumulative distribution
function
crosstab Cross-tabulation binopdf Binomial probability density
function
nansum Sum ignoring NaN values paramci Confidence intervals for
probability distribution parameters


Statistical Visualization Multivariate Distributions
boxplot Box plot mvnpdf Multivariate normal probability
density function
histfit Histogram with a distribution fit mvnrnd Multivariate normal random
numbers
normplot Normal probability plot wishrnd Wishart random numbers
normspec Normal density plot between iwishrnd Inverse Wishart random
specifications numbers
probplot Probability plots mvtpdf Multivariate t probability
density function
qqplot Quantile-quantile plot mvtrnd Multivariate t random numbers
wblplot Weibull probability plot Resampling Techniques
cdfplot Empirical cumulative bootci Bootstrap confidence interval
distribution function plot
ecdf Empirical cumulative bootstrp Bootstrap sampling
distribution function
ecdfhist Histogram based on empirical combnk Enumeration of combinations
cumulative distribution function
ksdensity Kernel smoothing function crossval Loss estimate using cross
estimate for univariate and validation
bivariate data
fsurfht Interactive contour plot datasample Randomly sample from data,
with or without replacement
randtool Interactive random number randsample Random sample
generation