10  Explorative data analysis

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“A quote.” — Dan Meyer

10.1 General background

10.2 Theoretical background

Figure 10.1: foo

10.3 R packages used

10.4 Data

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jump_blood_tbl <- read_delim("data/jump_fleas.txt") |> 
  select(feeding, jumplength) |> 
  filter(feeding == "human blood") 
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jump_blood_tbl
# A tibble: 7 × 2
  feeding     jumplength
  <chr>            <dbl>
1 human blood       21.8
2 human blood       28.4
3 human blood       34.8
4 human blood       34.4
5 human blood       38.8
6 human blood       31.4
7 human blood       41.4
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sem <- \(x) sd(x)/sqrt(length(x))

sem(jump_blood_tbl$jumplength)
[1] 2.480887
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sem <- \(x) sqrt(var(x)/length(x))

sem(jump_blood_tbl$jumplength)
[1] 2.480887
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sem <- \(x) sqrt(sum((x-mean(x))^2)/(length(x)*(length(x)-1)))

sem(jump_blood_tbl$jumplength)
[1] 2.480887
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sem <- \(x) sqrt(sum((x-mean(x))^2))/sqrt(length(x)*(length(x)-1))

sem(jump_blood_tbl$jumplength)
[1] 2.480887

\[ SE = \cfrac{s}{\sqrt{n}} \]

\[ SE = \sqrt{\cfrac{s^2}{n}} \]

\[ SE = \cfrac{\sqrt{SS}}{n};\; \mbox{for large n} \]

\[ SE = \sqrt{\cfrac{\sum_{i=1}^n\cfrac{(y_i - \bar{y})^2}{n-1}}{n}} = \sqrt{\cfrac{\sum_{i=1}^n (y_i - \bar{y})^2}{n\cdot(n-1)}} = \cfrac{\sqrt{SS}}{\sqrt{n\cdot(n-1)}} \]

With n is large

\[ SE = \cfrac{\sqrt{\sum_{i=1}^n (y_i - \bar{y})^2}}{\sqrt{n^2}} = \cfrac{\sqrt{\sum_{i=1}^n (y_i - \bar{y})^2}}{n} = \cfrac{\sqrt{SS}}{n} \]

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jump_blood_tbl |> 
  group_by(feeding) |> 
  summarise(mean(jumplength), var(jumplength), sd(jumplength), sem(jumplength)) |> 
  mutate_if(is.numeric, round, 2)
# A tibble: 1 × 5
  feeding     `mean(jumplength)` `var(jumplength)` `sd(jumplength)`
  <chr>                    <dbl>             <dbl>            <dbl>
1 human blood               33.0              43.1             6.56
# ℹ 1 more variable: `sem(jumplength)` <dbl>

10.5 Mean

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10.6 Alternatives

Further tutorials and R packages on XXX

10.7 Glossary

term

what does it mean.

10.8 The meaning of “Models of Reality” in this chapter.

  • itemize with max. 5-6 words

10.9 Summary

References