weightRatings: Subjective estimates of the weight of the referents of 81...

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Subjective estimates of the weight of the referents of 81 English nouns

Description

Subjective estimates on a seven-point scale of the weight of the referents of 81 English nouns.

Usage

data(weightRatings)

Format

A data frame with 1620 observations on the following 7 variables.

Subject

a factor with subjects as levels.

Rating

a numeric vector.

Trial

a numeric vector with the weight ratings.

Sex

a factor with levels F and M.

Word

a factor with words as levels.

Frequency

a numeric vector with log-transformed lemma frequencies as available in the CELEX lexical database.

Class

a factor with levels animal and plant.

References

Data collected with Jen Hay, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2004.

Examples

## Not run: 
data(weightRatings)
xylowess.fnc(Rating ~ Frequency | Subject, data = weightRatings, 
  xlab = "log Frequency", ylab = "Weight Rating")

## End(Not run)

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