--- title: "Precept 8" author: "Emily Nelson" date: "March 30, 2016" output: html_document --- ```{r global_options, include=FALSE} knitr::opts_chunk$set(message=FALSE, cache=TRUE, warning=FALSE) ``` ```{r setup} library(dplyr) library(ggplot2) library(knitr) set.seed(2016) load("precept8.save") ``` Agenda: Practice selecting and using statistical tests in R. #Two Samples ##Basics ```{r two_samples, dependson="setup"} x <- rnorm(10000, 5, 1) y <- rnorm(10000, -1, 2) df <- rbind(data.frame(obs = x, label="x"), data.frame(obs=y, label="y")) df %>% ggplot(aes(x=obs,fill=label)) + geom_density() + theme_bw() + scale_fill_manual(values = c("chartreuse3", "darkviolet")) z = x - y #expected value mean(x) - mean(y) mean(z) 5 - (-1) #variance var(x) + var(y) var(z) 1^2 + 2^2 ``` #Pick the test! ##Casino Example I work security for a casino. I'm suspicious of a certain felow who has been playing roulette all day and winning quite a bit and I want to find out if he is winning at a rate higher than expected. If it's statistically significant then I can kick him out of the casino. If he is only betting evens, then he should have a 46.37% chance of winning. Below is what I actually observe: ```{r casino} casino ``` What is my hypothesis? How do I perform this test in R? Can I kick him out? What if I watch him for a while more and get more data? ```{r casino2} casino2 ``` Can I kick him out now? ##Trial Example I invented a vaccination for the common cold. I am testing it on some unwitting subjects because being a mad scientist is much more fun than being an ethical one. I gave one group my vaccine, and the other group some sugar pills, and then counted how many people got a cold over a month-long period. How can I test to see if the proportions of people who got a cold is equal for the treated and placebo groups? ```{r trial} head(trial) ``` ##Publishing Example I'm an amazing Nobel prize winning scientist, but my up-start graduate student says that I'm not publishing papers as fast anymore as I used to. I want to prove her wrong, so I looked up the number of papers I published a month for three years randomly sampled from earlier in my career, and then compared that to the number of papers I published a month for three random years later in my career. How can I show whether or not my publishing rate is the same? ```{r publishing} head(publishing) ``` ##Finals Week My buddy and I are having a competition to see who can score higher on our finals this year. We're also taking ten classes because we are really smart and we need a sample size that isn't miniscule. How can we decide if one of us did better (in a statistically significant manner)? ```{r} my_scores his_scores ```