Thanks- Yes I'm using that as a text. I'm trying to have something fresh so that I can add an example to demonstrations or give assessments with new data.
I'm also using Keith Johnson's text. SFK On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 09:33:34AM +1300, Murray Jorgensen wrote: > From: Murray Jorgensen <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:33:34 +1300 > To: "Scott F. Kiesling" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [R-sig-teaching] Creating data > I take it you have looked at the data sets in Baayen's book > "Analyzing linguistic data. A practical introduction to statistics" ? > > www.ualberta.ca/~baayen/publications/baayenCUPstats.pdf > > Cheers, Murray Jorgensen > > Scott F. Kiesling wrote: >> Hi everyone- >> I'm currently teaching a graduate course in statistics for linguistics >> using R. I have used up most of the 'authentic' data I have been able >> to collect for homework and demonstrations. I can think of plenty more >> possible data sets, but I am finding the creation of them challenging, >> and my creations are often somewhat unlealistic (generally, too >> 'neat' and obvious). >> So, I was wondering if anyone had any tips on creating 'realistic' >> data sets, or links/books that describe it. >> For a simple example, let's say I want to create a dataset with >> students from different countries and academic departments who took an >> English test. I want to make some differences (significant and not) >> and possibly even interactions among the scores by country and >> department. I have been doing this through various iterations of >> sample() and rnorm(), and jitter() to get some randomness, but things >> are still coming out pretty neatly. Is this the right (or a good) >> method? Advice? >> Thanks in advance- >> SFK -- Scott F. Kiesling, PhD Associate Professor Department Chair Department of Linguistics University of Pittsburgh, 2816 CL Pittsburgh, PA 15260 http://www.linguistics.pitt.edu Office: +1 412-624-5916 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching
