如何在 r 中使用虚拟变量运行相关性测试

Question

我对使用 r 还很陌生，并且正在努力寻找一些方法来真正从一组数据中找到皮尔逊相关系数。我正在尝试分析作业收到的分数与所选主题领域（代数、微积分、几何等）之间是否存在相关性。 这是我的数据框

structure(list(area = structure(c(1L, 5L, 5L, 2L, 4L, 4L, 1L, 
6L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 3L, 3L, 5L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 4L, 5L, 1L, 2L, 
3L, 4L, 5L, 5L, 2L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 4L, 2L, 3L, 
4L, 4L, 5L, 5L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 5L), levels = c("Algebra", 
"Calculus", "Geometry", "Modelling", "Probability", "Other"), class = "factor"), 
    score = c(10, 10, 10, 11, 11, 11, 12, 12, 13, 13, 14, 14, 
    14, 14, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 
    17, 17, 17, 17, 17, 18, 18, 18, 18, 18, 19, 19, 19, 19, 19, 
    19, 20, 20, 20, 7, 9, 9)), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, 
-49L))

抱歉，如果这还不够信息，这也是我第一次来这里。

我能够从

> summary(lm(formula = score ~ area, data = sc.ar)) 

获得结果 但老实说我不知道该怎么处理它们。我的目标是找到一种通过手动输入虚拟变量来实现

>cor

的方法

Answer 1

也许您想要

split

按地区，

> (df_s <- split(df$score, df$area))
$Algebra
[1] 10 12 13 14 16 17

$Calculus
 [1] 11 13 15 15 15 16 17 18 18 19 20

$Geometry
[1] 14 14 15 16 18 19 20

$Modelling
 [1] 11 11 15 15 16 18 18 19 19 20  7  9

$Probability
 [1] 10 10 14 15 16 16 17 17 17 19 19  9

$Other
[1] 12

但是这些区域的长度似乎不同。也许这只是因为你的玩具数据，你可以用最大的

lengths

来完成。

> (m <- sapply(df_s, `length<-`, max(lengths(df_s))))
      Algebra Calculus Geometry Modelling Probability Other
 [1,]      10       11       14        11          10    12
 [2,]      12       13       14        11          10    NA
 [3,]      13       15       15        15          14    NA
 [4,]      14       15       16        15          15    NA
 [5,]      16       15       18        16          16    NA
 [6,]      17       16       19        18          16    NA
 [7,]      NA       17       20        18          17    NA
 [8,]      NA       18       NA        19          17    NA
 [9,]      NA       18       NA        19          17    NA
[10,]      NA       19       NA        20          19    NA
[11,]      NA       20       NA         7          19    NA
[12,]      NA       NA       NA         9           9    NA

无论如何，最后只需在结果矩阵上应用

cor

即可。

> cor(m, use="pairwise.complete.obs")
              Algebra  Calculus  Geometry Modelling Probability Other
Algebra     1.0000000 0.9006049 0.9601136 0.9297804   0.9094441    NA
Calculus    0.9006049 1.0000000 0.8492236 0.2967773   0.9461672    NA
Geometry    0.9601136 0.8492236 1.0000000 0.9285061   0.8992441    NA
Modelling   0.9297804 0.2967773 0.9285061 1.0000000   0.5407100    NA
Probability 0.9094441 0.9461672 0.8992441 0.5407100   1.0000000    NA
Other              NA        NA        NA        NA          NA    NA