[R-lang] Re: Test for binomial distribution

[Matt Goldrick]

Hi Scott,


I'm not precisely sure about your design, but if this is the core question:

The student wants to know, essentially, to what extent the respondents
> agree on the meanings.
>
>
Then I'd recommend using (generalized) Cohen's kappa--it provides an index
of the degree to which multiple raters agree on their classification of
categorical data.

An online calculator can be found here (no endorsement of its accuracy!):

http://cosmion.net/jeroen/software/kappa/

hope that helps,
mG

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Scott F. Kiesling <kiesling@pitt.edu>wrote:

> Hi linguistics stats gurus-
>
> I have a student who has response data from a questionnaire. Each
> question presents a word and then asks to choose a definition. The
> definitions are all categorized as reanalyzed or not reanalyzed.
>
> The student wants to know, essentially, to what extent the respondents
> agree on the meanings.
>
> It seems that chi-square might be appropriate here, but there are
> several responses per speaker, and her question is really about
> speakers overall, I think.
>
> For wome reason I can't get my head around this one and I'm only an
> amateur statistician anyway, so any suggestions are very much
> appreciated.
>
> Best
> Scott
>
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>
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> Department of Linguistics
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