Publications by George

CDI-CAT English Production Norms

23.01.2023

Our goal is to produce estimated WG and WS raw scores for each ability level, so that we can produce norms tables for the CDI-CAT that are equivalent norms tables for the full WG and WS forms. For English, we will produce simulated CDI-CAT scores for the new norms sample, and then create CAT ability norms using those scores. Run simulated CAT A...

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Swadesh CDI Appendix

27.01.2023

Uni-lemma Overlap on CDI:WS Forms Number of overlapping items on each pair of CDI:WS forms. Word Difficulty by Semantic Category and Language Mean difficulty of CDI words by semantic category and language. Bars represent bootstrapped 95% confidence intervals. Cross-linguistic similarities We look at the Spearman correlation between the item di...

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Swadesh CDI IRT Wordbank2

10.10.2022

Our goal is to look at IRT parameters across a diverse set of languages and find a subset of uni-lemmas that are somewhat similar in their difficulty. We’ll start with 2PL fits to WG data (comprehension and production separately) for 22 languages: Kigiriama, Kiswahili, British Sign Language, Croatian, Danish, English (American), Italian, M...

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NDAR data

18.10.2022

NDAR Words & Sentences Data data_AS_WS <- read.delim("data/ASD CDI data/mci_sentences02.txt", header = TRUE, sep = "\t", dec = ".") # extracting first row as a descriptive dataframe description_WS <- data_AS_WS[1:1,] description_WS <- as.data.frame(t(description_WS)) names(description_WS) <- "description" # what ...

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CDI-CAT French Production Norms Tables

28.11.2022

Our goal is to produce estimated WG and WS raw scores for each ability level, so that we can produce norms tables for the CDI-CAT that are equivalent norms tables for the full WG and WS forms. These norms are based on all available Wordbank data, combined with data from Sho’s lab: 252 WG administrations and 1409 WS administrations. (The same da...

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Using jri to connect JAVA to R

19.09.2011

The R package rJava allows R to be accessed in Java programs. The part of the package that allows this is jri. The notes on the rJava site about getting jri to work didn’t help me much getting it to … Continue reading → Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Sharp Statisti...

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Connect JAVA to R part 2

29.09.2011

To follow on from the earlier post on using R through Java, it is even easier to get jri up and running as a NetBeans module. Why is this useful? Well the platform that the NetBeans IDE is built on … Continue reading → Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Sharp Statistics ...

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Using Sweave

08.10.2011

If you use R and haven’t discovered Sweave then go and find out about it. It enables R code and plots to be incorporated into a document so the analysis and report can be combined together in a single document. … Continue reading → Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Sh...

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Landscape figures in Sweave

15.11.2011

This post is a quick follow up from my initial article on Sweave to add a note on how to get a plot in landscape orientation to fill the whole page, plus a little example of using BibTex.Just to clarify  my … Continue reading → Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Sharp ...

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Ggplot2 Notes

06.03.2012

During the time I have used R the base graphics package has met my needs, although I have been aware of ggplot2 but found learning it a bit of a struggle so have pretty much ignored it until now. Most … Continue reading → Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Sharp Statisti...

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