PsyTeachR FQA Ch. 3

console

The pane in RStudio where you can type in commands and view output messages.

reproducible research

Research that documents all of the steps between raw data and results in a way that can be verified.

environment

A data structure that contains R objects such as variables and functions

csv

Comma-separated variable: a file type for representing data where each variable is separated from the next by a comma.

package

A group of R functions.

data wrangling

The process of preparing data for visualisation and statistical analysis.

inner join

A mutating join that returns all the rows that have a match in the other table.

tidyverse

A set of R packages that help you create and work with tidy data

replicability

The extent to which the findings of a study can be repeated with new samples from the same population.

object

A word that identifies and stores the value of some data for later use.

assignment operator

The symbol <-, which functions like = and assigns the value on the right to the object on the left

descriptive

Statistics that describe an aspect of data (e.g., mean, median, mode, variance, range)

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