[R-lang] Re: Test for binomial distribution

[Maria Wolters]

Hi everybody, 

the psy and psych packages in R have extensive implementations of kappa. If the definitions can be analysed into a small number of classes, then this might be sufficient.

Cheers

Maria


Am 26.03.2010 um 15:02 schrieb 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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