Pretty printing MCSE
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In #117 I wrote
I don't know if this would make sense but adding here, that there could be something that would show the mcse in compact format. I assume it would require new variable type, like expectation variable evar, but I guess that could cause too much trouble even if it would look nice
E(eight_schools_rvars$mu, MCSE=TRUE) evar[1] E ± MCSE: [1] 4.2 ± .2 Pr(eight_schools_rvars$mu>0, MCSE=TRUE) evar[1] Pr ± MCSE: [1] 0.9 ± 0.02Instead of an option, I guess different function name would be safer.
More I think it, more I dislike having yet another variable type, but I open the issue if there are ideas for otherwise make it easy to pretty print MCSE. Maybe a variant of summarize_draws or option for that, that would choose the numbers of digit to show best on MCSE and would show MCSE using ± as above?
The current way is to do
> summarize_draws(eight_schools_rvars$mu, mean, mcse_mean, quantile2, mcse_quantile)
# A tibble: 1 x 7
variable mean mcse_mean q5 q95 mcse_q5 mcse_q95
<chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
1 eight_schools_rvars$mu 4.18 0.150 -0.854 9.39 0.551 0.415
and the difference would be that with pretty printing we could get something like
variable mean ± mcse q5 ± mcse q95 ± mcse
1 eight_schools_rvars$mu 4.2 ± 0.2 0.9 ± 0.6 9.4 ± 0.4
where ± helps to group together the related information.
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Start by reviewing the existing summarize_draws entry point and the compact MCSE examples in this issue. Decide whether the presentation belongs in summarize_draws or a separate function, including how digits and ± grouping should work. Done means a documented API produces the proposed compact summaries without introducing another variable type.
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