[R-sig-teaching] Using R in an introductory stats course for non-stat/math majors using Lock5 text

Tue Dec 3 19:55:41 CET 2019

Hi Michael,
Thanks for sharing that. It looks like a really nice collection of Shiny
apps.
Chris

On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 12:37 PM Granaas, Michael <Michael.Granaas using usd.edu>
wrote:

>
> Some folks at Penn State have developed a bunch of shiny apps for intro
> stats.
>
> https://shinyapps.science.psu.edu/
>
> They are not Lock5 specific, but there might be some you can use.
> BOAST | Book Of Apps for Statistics Teaching<
> https://shinyapps.science.psu.edu/>
> The apps in this collection are the work of undergraduate students
> majoring in Statistics at Penn State University. These students took part
> in the BOAST program in 2017, 2018, and 2019. (BOAST = Book Of Apps for
> Statistics Teaching).
> shinyapps.science.psu.edu
>
> Michael
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> To: Randall Pruim <rpruim using calvin.edu>
> Cc: r-sig-teaching using r-project.org <r-sig-teaching using r-project.org>; Stacy De
> Ruiter <sld33 using calvin.edu>
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-teaching] Using R in an introductory stats course for
> non-stat/math majors using Lock5 text
>
> Hi Randall,
>
> Thanks for the email.
>
> I was indeed quite happy to see your PDF on the Lock website when I began
> teaching the course. The last time I looked at your PDF, it it looked like
> it was mostly code to do replicate their examples in R, which while
> helpful, isn't quite what I'm looking for. I'd love for them to learn R in
> that manner, but I think it's slightly beyond their skill set.
>
> Ideally here's what I'd like.
>
> I would have the StatKey interface for bootstrapping and randomization
> tests written in Shiny (or a similar toolkit with R as the backend) such
> that there is a main plot that shows the bootstrap or randomization
> distributions (with an option to set the seed) and two side plots to show
> the original sample and the current bootstrap/randomization sample. If
> possible, I'd like the "current" sample plot to be updated based on the
> statistic that is hovered over in the main plot (probably this could be
> done with ggplot2 and an additional package or d3.js). As far as I can tell
> nothing like this exists for R or Shiny (I'd love to be wrong, though). So,
> basically a one-to-one port of StatKey to R.
>
> It would be great to see this functionality packaged in a Shiny app under a
> tab called "Inference via Simulation". Another tab might be called
> "Theory-based Inference" (or some better name), that provided a drop down
> menu to select a test (binomial, t-test, regression, ANOVA, chi-square), an
> option to calculate an arbitrary CI, a plot of the data for assumption
> checking, model output printed, and a plot showing the p-value all within
> that tab. This could be broken up to make it a little less busy. Finally
> there might be another tab for just "Exploring the Data" both numerically
> or graphically (essentially a tab for EDA). Additionally, there might be
> the option to show/hide the R code. I would like students to be able to
> upload the data as a CSV to the app.
>
> I've got quite a bit of experience making Shiny apps, but don't want to
> create one if someone has already made something similar to this that I
> could either fork or just use.
>
> Regarding JASP and jamovi, I found their language to be weird and creating
> confidence intervals cumbersome. E.g., creating a confidence interval for a
> mean, as far as I could tell, requires running a one sample t-test, making
> sure H_0 the Test Value(?) is set to 0 otherwise the CI won't make sense,
> clicking location parameter, and then setting the confidence interval and
> hoping the students don't select effect size instead, which they do. In
> JASP, you can't edit data directly but must edit it in Excel. and you can
> edit directly in Rcmdr. JASP's focus on Bayesian is also confusing for my
> non-Bayesian course as students select the wrong tests very easily. I do
> love that they have the ability to export to LaTeX tables by default, very
> nice. Also, in JASP you can't get dot plots, which I think are very helpful
> for teaching. Neither software is capable of bootstrapping and
> randomization tests as far as I know.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 9:53 AM Randall Pruim <rpruim using calvin.edu> wrote:
>
> > Chris,
> >
> > The Lock5withR package includes all the data sets (first edition at this
> > point) with more traditional R encoding than the package provided by the
> > authors.
> >
> > Soon (I hope — it’s just pending a final review and polish), there will
> > also be a companion volume as a bookdown document using R, mosaic, and
> > ggformula to recreate all the examples.  An older version is available
> as a
> > PDF here:
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> > For "StatCrunch in shiny", perhaps you can say a bit more about what you
> > are looking for and how jamovi and JASP fall short.
> >
> > I hope you find a solutions that works well for you.
> >
> > —rjp
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Dec 3, 2019, at 9:25 AM, Manuel Spínola <mspinola10 using gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Chris,
> >
> > How about Radiant?
> >
> > Manuel
> >
> > El mar., 3 dic. 2019 a las 7:53, Christopher David Desjardins (<
> > cddesjardins using gmail.com>) escribió:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I teach an introductory statistics course for non-stat/math majors that
> are
> > primarily coming from the social sciences or business. I am using the
> Lock
> > textbook,
> >
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> > , and their software StatKey,
> >
> >
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> > . I really like the way that StatKey does
> > randomization tests and bootstrapping, however, I don't like that it's
> not
> > possible to perform theory-based tests on their website (e.g., if I
> wanted
> > my students to perform an independent samples t-test not by hand or run a
> > simple linear regression).
> >
> > Ideally what I was hoping for was to use R in my introductory classes but
> > to have some way to make it less intimidating. I want my students to be
> > able to run descriptives and create basic graphics (including dot plots),
> > randomization tests, bootstrapping, and run t-tests, chi-square, ANOVA,
> and
> > regression.
> >
> > I tried using RStudio, but it is still overkill for what I want my
> students
> > to be able to do. They don't need an IDE. Randall Pruim has kindly made a
> > PDF for using R with Lock5, but that is too much for what I want my
> > students need. Programming isn't a principal outcome of my course.
> >
> > I have looked in JASP and jamovi as well, but they don't fit my needs.
> >
> > The closest thing I have found to what I'm looking for is Rcmdr, but it
> > freezes on my Mac periodically regardless of if I use it from the
> Terminal,
> > the R GUI, or RStudio. Has anyone else encountered that issue? Rcmdr is
> > great because it's GUI driven but also pastes the R code, which is nice
> for
> > the more advanced students in the class.
> >
> > What I am wondering is.
> >
> > 1. Is anyone using R with Lock5 and how do you use R to do it?
> > 2. Does anyone know of a Shiny app that does what StatKey does AND
> includes
> > some options for descriptives and inference similar to Rcmdr? I am
> > basically looking for a Shiny StatCrunch.
> >
> > I have thought about creating a Shiny app to do all of this, but if
> someone
> > already has a wonderful solution, I don't want to reinvent the wheel. I
> > created something very, very basic[1] for my students just to explore the
> > Lock5 data and I just might need to expand on it to get what I want.
> >
> > Thanks for reading my long winded email,
> > Chris
> >
> > [1]:
> >
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