I am trying to discretize the variable- DEATH, into two bins. DEATH can only be a value of 0 or 1 The command I am using is as follows:
to convert Death to a factor variable using unsupervised discretization with equal frequency binning
burn$DEATH<-discretize(burn$DEATH, method="interval", breaks=2)
summary(burn$DEATH)
However, my output is the entire range of values. I would like to show the individual count for 0 and 1.
My current output:
summary(burn$DEATH)
[0,1]
1000
I think the user specified method would be the solution but when I tried this, I received an error stating that 'x must be numeric'
burn$FACILITY <- discretize(burn$FACILITY, method="fixed", breaks=c(-Inf,0, 1, Inf))
Additional note: This is for a class so I'm assuming they wouldn't want us to use a method that we haven't discussed yet. I'd prefer to use a discretization method if possible! Someone suggested I use the factor() command, but how do I see the summary statistics with the levels if I do this?
