Equal frequency binning

Equal frequency tries to put the same quantity of cases per bin when possible. It's a wrapper of function cut2 from Hmisc package.

equal_freq(var, n_bins)

Arguments

var	input variable
n_bins	number of bins to split 'var' by equal frequency, if it not possible to calculate for the desired bins, it returns the closest number

Value

The binned variable.

Examples

## Example 1
summary(heart_disease$age)
#>    Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max. 
#>   29.00   48.00   56.00   54.44   61.00   77.00 
age_2=equal_freq(var=heart_disease$age, n_bins = 10)
summary(age_2)
#> [29,43) [43,46) [46,51) [51,54) [54,57) [57,59) [59,61) [61,63) [63,67) [67,77] 
#>      36      27      31      33      35      36      26      19      34      26 

## Example 2
age_3=equal_freq(var=heart_disease$age, n_bins = 5)
summary(age_3)
#> [29,46) [46,54) [54,59) [59,63) [63,77] 
#>      63      64      71      45      60