AnthroTools: AnthroTools

AnthroToolsR Documentation

AnthroTools

Description

AnthroTools: Some custom tools for cultural anthropology.

Details

Package: AnthroTools
Type: Package
Version: 0.9
Date: 2023-06-10
License: GPL 2

Freelist Analysis

Freelist analysis allows you to collect answers to such questions as "What fruit can you think of?", and analyse what answers are most salient (come to mind first). If you wish to do salience analysis, the most important function will be CalculateSalience, probably followed by SalienceByCode. For examples of the data structures the functions would like as input please look at FruitList, or generate fake data of your own using GenerateFakeFreeListData. FreeListTable is also a useful function. If your data was previously prepared for Anthropac, then LoadFromAnthropac provides compatibility.

Consensus Analysis

Consensus analysis lets you collect a group's answers to multi choice questions (all related to a single topic). By first estimating the competence of each person, the method will than allow you to calculate the “consensus response”. If you want to do consensus analysis, we recommend ConsensusPipeline. For examples of the data structures the functions would like as input please look at ConsensusTestData, or generate your own data using GenerateConsensusData

Author(s)

Alastair Jamieson Lane. <aja107@math.ubc.ca> Benjamin Grant Purzycki. <bgpurzycki@cas.au.dk>

References

Oravecz, Z., Vandekerckhove, J., & Batchelder, W. H. (2014). Bayesian Cultural Consensus Theory. Field Methods, 1525822X13520280. http://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X13520280

Romney, A. K., Weller, S. C., & Batchelder, W. H. (1986). Culture as Consensus: A Theory of Culture and Informant Accuracy. American Anthropologist, 88(2), 313-338.

Smith, J. J., & Borgatti, S. P. (1997). Salience Counts-And So Does Accuracy: Correcting and Updating a Measure for Free-List-Item Salience. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 7(2), 208-209. http://doi.org/10.1525/jlin.1997.7.2.208

Smith, J. J., Furbee, L., Maynard, K., Quick, S., & Ross, L. (1995). Salience Counts: A Domain Analysis of English Color Terms. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 5(2), 203-216. http://doi.org/10.1525/jlin.1995.5.2.203.

Examples

data(FruitList)
test<- FruitList
test<- CalculateSalience(test)
SalienceByCode(test,dealWithDoubles="MAX")

FakeData<- GenerateConsensusData(8,8,4)
Survey <- FakeData$Survey
ConsensusResult <- ConsensusPipeline(Survey,4)
View(ConsensusResult$Answers)
View(FakeData$Answers)

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