--- title: "SDM4 in R: The Standard Deviation as a Ruler and the Normal Model (Chapter 5)" author: "Nicholas Horton (nhorton@amherst.edu) and Sarah McDonald" date: "June 13, 2018" output: pdf_document: fig_height: 3 fig_width: 6 html_document: fig_height: 3 fig_width: 5 word_document: fig_height: 4 fig_width: 6 --- ```{r, include=FALSE} # Don't delete this chunk if you are using the mosaic package # This loads the mosaic and dplyr packages require(mosaic) ``` ```{r, include=FALSE} # knitr settings to control how R chunks work. require(knitr) opts_chunk$set( tidy = FALSE, # display code as typed size = "small" # slightly smaller font for code ) ``` ## Introduction and background This document is intended to help describe how to undertake analyses introduced as examples in the Fourth Edition of *Stats: Data and Models* (2014) by De Veaux, Velleman, and Bock. More information about the book can be found at http://wps.aw.com/aw_deveaux_stats_series. This file as well as the associated R Markdown reproducible analysis source file used to create it can be found at http://nhorton.people.amherst.edu/sdm4. This work leverages initiatives undertaken by Project MOSAIC (http://www.mosaic-web.org), an NSF-funded effort to improve the teaching of statistics, calculus, science and computing in the undergraduate curriculum. In particular, we utilize the `mosaic` package, which was written to simplify the use of R for introductory statistics courses. A short summary of the R needed to teach introductory statistics can be found in the mosaic package vignettes (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/mosaic). A paper describing the mosaic approach was published in the *R Journal*: https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-024. ## Chapter 5: The standard deviation as a ruler and the normal model ### Section 5.1: Standardizing with z-scores ```{r} library(mosaic) library(readr) options(na.rm = TRUE) options(digits = 3) (6.54 - 5.91)/0.56 # should be 1.1 sd better, see page 112 ``` ```{r message = FALSE} Heptathlon <- read_delim("http://nhorton.people.amherst.edu/sdm4/data/Womens_Heptathlon_2012.txt", delim = "\t") nrow(Heptathlon) filter(Heptathlon, LJ >= max(LJ, na.rm = TRUE)) %>% data.frame() favstats(~ LJ, data = Heptathlon) (6.54 - mean(~ LJ, data = Heptathlon))/sd(~ LJ, data = Heptathlon) ``` ### Section 5.2: Shifting and scaling ### Section 5.3: Normal models The 68-95-99.7 rule ```{r, message = FALSE, warning = FALSE} xpnorm(c(-3, -1.96, -1, 1, 1.96, 3), mean = 0, sd = 1, verbose = FALSE) xpnorm(c(-3, -1.96, 1.96, 3), mean = 0, sd = 1, verbose = FALSE) xpnorm(c(-3, 3), mean = 0, sd = 1, verbose = FALSE) ``` Step-by-step (page 122) ```{r} xpnorm(600, mean = 500, sd = 100) ``` ### Section 5.4: Finding normal percentiles as on page 123 ```{r} xpnorm(680, mean = 500, sd = 100) qnorm(0.964, mean = 500, sd = 100) # inverse of pnorm() qnorm(0.964, mean = 0, sd = 1) # what is the z-score? ``` or on page 124 ```{r} xpnorm(450, mean = 500, sd = 100) ``` and page 125 ```{r} qnorm(.9, mean = 500, sd = 100) qnorm(.9, mean = 0, sd = 1) # or as a Z-score ``` ### Section 5.5: Normal probability plots See (sideways) Figure 5.8 on page 129 ```{r message = FALSE} Nissan <- read_delim("http://nhorton.people.amherst.edu/sdm4/data/Nissan.txt", delim = "\t") gf_histogram(~ mpg, binwidth = 1, center = 0.5, data = Nissan) ``` ```{r} gf_qq(~ mpg, data = Nissan) ```