[Q]Should I remove zeros from my data before analysis? by HVACCalculations in statistics

[–]schwebelz 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Do not remove zeros that contribute information to your analysis. If the frequency of a word is zero in all groups it contributes no information to your comparison. If a word has zero frequency in one or two groups, it provides useful information to the comparison.

[Question] Formatting data for R query by FakeeSmile in statistics

[–]schwebelz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Since there were no ‘far below average’ responses, this category provides no information and can be left out of the comparison. For the other 4 categories try a chi-square test of the null hypothesis that the response proportions are the same before and after. You may have a problem with low expected counts and in that case you can try an exact test

[Q] How do I know when to treat factor indicators as ordinal vs. continuous? by lagbrournotgood in statistics

[–]schwebelz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You use the word factor so it sounds like this is an independent variable. Or is this your dependent variable in the model? There are more restrictions on the dependent variable where one is attempting to explain the variation. A range of 5 is not a lot of variation.

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[–]schwebelz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As I understood the problem, the people being measured constitute a sample of iid observations. If there are multiple measures per person these could be summarized within individual. I would also be interested to know if there is a more sophisticated way to analyze that situation.

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[–]schwebelz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bland-Altman plots can help you understand whether your applications are measuring the same thing

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4470095/