Re: [R] analyzing qualitative data sets

2014-07-29 Thread Rolf Turner
A goldmine of fortunes!!! cheers, Rolf On 30/07/14 01:29, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 29 Jul 2014, Sun Shine wrote: (a) what types of analyses are available to apply to the data types above? Many years ago I consulted to a graduate nursing program; the students were asking the same qu

Re: [R] analyzing qualitative data sets

2014-07-29 Thread Sun Shine
Thanks for the link. I had not been aware of that. On 29/07/14 15:27, Bert Gunter wrote: 1. If you are asking about statistics, this is the wrong list. Post here instead: stats.stackexchange.com. 2. If you you are asking about what sorts of statistical analyses are available in R, check the CR

Re: [R] analyzing qualitative data sets

2014-07-29 Thread Sun Shine
Thanks, I'll look into that further. Cheers On 29/07/14 16:44, Richard M. Heiberger wrote: For your item 2, (2) 25 obs x 14 var of ordinal rank data [5 item Likert-scale, with some missing values], and I recommend the likert function in the HH package install.packages("HH") library(HH) ?liker

Re: [R] analyzing qualitative data sets

2014-07-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 29 Jul 2014, Sun Shine wrote: (a) what types of analyses are available to apply to the data types above? Many years ago I consulted to a graduate nursing program; the students were asking the same questions you ask: what sort of statistics will turn my sow's ears of survey data into

Re: [R] analyzing qualitative data sets

2014-07-29 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
For your item 2, (2) 25 obs x 14 var of ordinal rank data [5 item Likert-scale, with some missing values], and I recommend the likert function in the HH package install.packages("HH") library(HH) ?likert Rich On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Sun Shine wrote: > Hello list > > I'm just beginning

Re: [R] analyzing qualitative data sets

2014-07-29 Thread Bert Gunter
1. If you are asking about statistics, this is the wrong list. Post here instead: stats.stackexchange.com. 2. If you you are asking about what sorts of statistical analyses are available in R, check the CRAN task views here: http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/ 3. If you are asking about how to p

[R] analyzing qualitative data sets

2014-07-29 Thread Sun Shine
Hello list I'm just beginning my PhD and am likely to be using lots of surveys in my data collection, and am wanting to get my head around the ideas about how best to approach the tasks in R. The data sets I have collected so far for some preliminary practise with are made up of the followin