summarise_items: Get item-by-age summary statistics

In wordbankr: Accessing the Wordbank Database

Get item-by-age summary statistics

Description

Get item-by-age summary statistics

Usage

summarise_items(item_data, db_args = NULL)

Arguments

item_data	A dataframe as returned by get_item_data().
db_args	List with arguments to connect to wordbank mysql database (host, dbname, user, and password).

Value

A dataframe with a row for each combination of item and age, and columns for summary statistics for the group: number of children (n_children), means (comprehension, production), standard deviations (comprehension_sd, production_sd); also retains item-level variables from lang_items (item_id, item_definition, uni_lemma, lexical_category).

Examples

italian_items <- get_item_data(language = "Italian", form = "WG")
if (!is.null(italian_items)) {
  italian_dog <- dplyr::filter(italian_items, uni_lemma == "dog")
  italian_dog_summary <- summarise_items(italian_dog)
}

wordbankr documentation built on Nov. 10, 2023, 1:13 a.m.