2 title: "Week 7 R Lecture"
8 ```{r setup, include=FALSE}
9 knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
14 The goal of this script is to help you think about analyzing categorical data, including proportions, tables, chi-squared tests, and simulation.
16 ### Estimating proportions
18 If a survey of 50 randomly sampled Chicagoans found that 45% of them thought that Giordano's made the best deep dish pizza, what would be the 95% confidence interval for the true proportion of Chicagoans who prefer Giordano's?
20 Can we reject the hypothesis that 50% of Chicagoans prefer Giordano's?
26 SE = sqrt(est*(1-est)/sample_size)
28 conf_int = c(est - 1.96 * SE, est + 1.96 * SE)
32 What if we had the same result but had sampled 500 people?
38 SE = sqrt(est*(1-est)/sample_size)
40 conf_int = c(est - 1.96 * SE, est + 1.96 * SE)
46 The Iris dataset is composed of measurements of flower dimensions. It comes packaged with R and is often used in examples. Here we make a table of how often each species in the dataset has a sepal width greater than 3.
50 table(iris$Species, iris$Sepal.Width > 3)
55 The chi-squared test is a test of how much the frequencies we see in a table differ from what we would expect if there was no difference between the groups.
59 chisq.test(table(iris$Species, iris$Sepal.Width > 3))
62 The incredibly low p-value means that it is very unlikely that these came from the same distribution and that sepal width differs by species.
68 When the assumptions of Chi-squared tests aren't met, we can use simulation to approximate how likely a given result is.
70 The book uses the example of a medical practitioner who has 3 complications out of 62 procedures, while the typical rate is 10%.
72 The null hypothesis is that this practitioner's true rate is also 10%, so we're trying to figure out how rare it would be to have 3 or fewer complications, if the true rate is 10%.
75 # We write a function that we are going to replicate
76 simulation <- function(rate = .1, n = 62){
77 # Draw n random numbers from a uniform distribution from 0 to 1
79 # If rate = .4, on average, .4 of the draws will be less than .4
80 # So, we consider those draws where the value is less than `rate` as complications
81 complication_count = sum(draws < rate)
82 # Then, we return the total count
83 return(complication_count)
86 # The replicate function runs a function many times
88 simulated_complications <- replicate(5000, simulation())
92 We can look at our simulated complications
96 hist(simulated_complications)
99 And determine how many of them are as extreme or more extreme than the value we saw. This is the p-value.
103 sum(simulated_complications <= 3)/length(simulated_complications)