Scott Rifkin <sarif...@ucsd.edu> writes:
> Ista,
>
> On the one hand I'd like it to be as flexible as possible so the
> students could really come up with whatever they like. On the other
> hand, restricting their choices probably would make it easier to do
> the backend. The goal would be to get them to realize that the
> apparatus of hypothesis testing (when done via
> simulation/randomization techniques) doesn't depend on what the
> statistic is. The flow of steps is the same whether the statistic is a
> mean, variance, or their own kooky thing. Obviously this isn't the end
> of the story - what the statistic is actually describing is also a
> crucial component to interpreting the results of a hypothesis test,
> but I think it teaches an important pedagogical point about where
> statistics come from and that if they find themselves in a situation
> in the future where they need to make up their own, then that is
> perfectly okay.
>
> So they could make up ones like: arctan( (max({x})^2)/ (min({x})^2)
> )-3), max({x})-min({x}), sum from i to n of (x_i - 25th%ile({x}) )^3)
> [that might be tricky to write in a standard equation editor]
> none of these is hard to write in R, but translating from an equation
> editor might be.
>
> Perhaps the best solution is (as Alan suggests below) to write a Shiny
> function builder myself so that I can control the whole process and
> make sure that they can't enter anything that would break the backend.
> Or to have them learn the rudiments of writing equations in R so that
> it bypasses the whole process.Teach them to write equations in R will make them more used to the logic in R and make them feel easier to use R. On the other hand, a converter from LaTeX equations to R formulas and back would be quite a useful thing for e.g. documentation and paper writing (e.g a formula entered in LaTeX could be immediately tested in R) - but I guess that would be quite a complex task... Cheers, Rainer > > Thanks, > Scott > > > > On 11/19/14 1:52 PM, Ista Zahn wrote: >> Hi Scott, >> >> Can you give a couple of examples of the equations you have in mind >> along with how those should be translated to R? >> >> Thanks, >> Ista >> > -- Rainer M. Krug email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de PGP: 0x0F52F982
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