[R] Contingency tables example

jim holtman jholtman at gmail.com
Thu Dec 29 18:28:09 CET 2011


Without giving help on a potential homework problem, I would suggest
that after each step you examine the object you are
creating/modifying.  This is a basic debugging technique that will
help you out in the future.  If you have a multi-step problem (as
almost all are), then you may have to go step-by-step and track down
when the problem is.  It should be obvious where your problem is if
you follow these instructions.

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 12:10 PM, David Winsemius
<dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> On Dec 29, 2011, at 7:15 AM, sambooth21 wrote:
>
>> I am having a few problems importing the data i'm running this code and
>> the
>> table sets up fine but all of the data values say NA:
>>
>> housdat<- c(21, 21, 28, 14, 19, 37, 34, 22, 36, 17, 23, 401, 10, 11, 36,
>> 3,
>> 5, 23, 61, 23, 17, 78, 46, 43, 43, 35, 40, 48, 45, 86, 26, 18, 54, 15, 25,
>> 62)
>> housdat<-array(dim=c(2,3,6))
>> dimnames(housdat) <- list(Housing=c("Tower Block","Apartment"),
>> Influence=c("Low","Medium","High"),
>> ContactSatisfaction=c("LCLow","LCMed","LCHigh","HCLow","HCMed","HCHigh"))
>>
>> ftable(housdat, row.vars=c("Housing","Influence"),
>> col.vars="ContactSatisfaction")
>>
>> any advice would be greatly appreciated!
>
>
>  Rhelp is NOT a homework help list. If you are a student, as you give every
> appearance of being, then you should be seeking help through your usual
> academic channels. This dataset regarding Copenhageners' satisfaction with
> housing conditions from 30 or 40 years ago is widely copied in a variety of
> textbooks and websites, (including R's own MASS where its name is
> 'housing').
>
> --
>
> David Winsemius, MD
> Heritage Laboratories
> West Hartford, CT
>
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