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