Category: Data Analysis
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Checking your data with R
Before any analysis is done, it is the job of the data analyst to ensure that the data is ready. In this post, we will look into how we can do that with R. First, we need to identify the type of data we are looking at before any form of preparation is done. Generally,…
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Latent Class Analysis (LCA) in MPlus – Characteristics of Speech Tolerance in GSS 2018
Free speech remains one of the most hotly debated issues of our time — but not everyone defines it the same way. In this post, we analyze the 2018 General Social Survey (GSS) to explore how Americans think about who should be allowed to speak, especially when it comes to controversial or offensive groups. To…
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Simple Stacked Bar Graph in R
In this example, I am going to use the GSS 2018 data (NORC at the University of Chicago, 2019) to investigate individual’s belief in the afterlife across age group (You may download the dataset from here: https://gss.norc.org/us/en/gss/get-the-data.html). Importing the Data First, we need to import the data into R. Because the datasets are only available…
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Sim Chen Xing 