PSYCH 420m Lab – 3: for loops and central limit theorem

Review: Where should your 420M folder be?

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First, we need to create our lab3 folder

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Where should you create your lab3 folder?

Answer: Your 420m Folder

Create your lab3 folder

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Next, we need to create our R studio project

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Where do we create our R studio project?

Let’s create the R studio project

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Now, create an EMPTY Rmd file

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Make sure it is EMPTY

Save the Rmd file

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Where do we save the Rmd file?

Add the title, author, and date

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What is the proper format?

Add the first code chunk

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What is the proper format?

Simulating height

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Today, we are going to simulate our own heights dataset, and then plot it
What is a simulation?
- A simulation is when we generate fake data form scratch.
- Our beliefs and hypotheses inform the mechanism we use to generate the data.

There is a mechanism that produces all data

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What are some factors that impact height?
- Genetics
- Nutrition
- Exercise

Let’s say that everyone’s height is determined by the average height plus or minus some of these factors.

Let’s take a look in R

avg_height <- 66
genes <- sample(-10:10, size=1) # randomly samples a single number from -10 to 10
final_height <- avg_height + genes

We just simulated for one person. Now we want to repeat this 100 times.

for loops

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Wrap the following around the code you want to repeat

for (person in 1:100){
# Code to repeat goes here. This repeats the code 100 times.
# `person` takes the value 1 the first time, then 2 the second time, etc.
}

Try running that block of code. Try printing final_height. What do you get?
- You should only get one number.

You need to store all the numbers from the simulation!

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If you don’t store the simulated numbers into a list, final_height gets over-written again and again.
So we create an empty list, then each time the for loop runs, we store the new value in the next place in the list.

What goes in A, B, and C?

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avg_height <- 66
sim_heights <- A

for (person in 1:100){
genes <- sample(-10:10, size=1)
final_height <- avg_height + genes
sim_heights[B] <- C
}

sim_heights

hint: person goes in one of them
A = c()
- This is am empty list to store data

B = person
- person takes the value of 1 the first time the for loop runs, and 2 the second time, 3 the third time, etc., until we reach the 100th time.
C = final_height
- We put the final_height of the first person in sim_heights[1], and second person in sim_heights[2], etc.

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avg_height <- 66
sim_heights <- c()

for (person in 1:100){
genes <- sample(-10:10, size=1)
final_height <- avg_height + genes
sim_heights[person] <- final_height

}

sim_heights

Plot the data

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Convert our sim_heights to a dataframe.
- We will need to load the tidyverse package to do so.
Plot a histogram using ggplot()
- We will need the ggplot2 package.

Creating a dataframe

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Use the following code to create a dataframe with 1 column named heights, populated with our simulated data:
```
df <- tibble(heights = sim_heights) # converts the c() list to a dataframe
```
Let’s take a look in R

ggplot basics

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Basic formulation: ggplot(data, aes(x,y))
- This doesn’t plot anything, but just provides important information, like the x and y variables, to ggplot
- aes means “aesthetics”
- You could just have x in aesthetics for histograms
To actually plot things, you add layers using +
Examples of layers:
- geom_histogram() for histograms
- geom_freqpoly() for frequency polygons (continuous versions of histograms)

Let’s take a look in R

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avg_height <- 66
sim_heights <- c()

for (person in 1:100){
genes <- sample(-10:10, size=1)
sim_heights[person] <- avg_height + genes
}

df <- tibble(heights = sim_heights)
ggplot(data=df, aes(x=heights)) + geom_histogram()

Run the simulation multiple times

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What is the shape of your plot?

Answer: they vary a lot, but overall they are flat.

Let’s add another variable

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avg_height <- 66
sim_heights <- c()

for (person in 1:100){
genes <- sample(-10:10, size=1)
nutrition <- sample(-5:5, size=1)

sim_heights[person] <- avg_height + genes + nutrition
}

df <- tibble(heights = sim_heights)
ggplot(data=df, aes(x=heights)) + geom_histogram()

How has the shape changed?

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Answer: With an additional variable, the shapes of the distributions are more bell shaped.

Many independent causes → bell shaped distribution

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With more independent causes, the distribution becomes more bell shaped
This approximates a normal/Gaussian distribution
This is the central limit theorem

Save you data with `write_csv`

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To save your dataset, use the function write_csv(). The following code saves the dataframe named df to a file named dataset_name.csv:

write_csv(df, "dataset_name.csv")

Notes about today’s deliverables

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Deliverables

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Simulate heights data for 200 people.
1. This time, use women’s average height (64 inches)
2. Include the two variables we used before.
3. Include an additional variable of your choice.
A histogram or frequency polygon of women’s heights.
Save the dataset as “heights_women.csv” using write_csv()
How would you describe the shape of your distribution?
- With three variables, the shape of the distribution is even more bell shaped.
Let’s say that you look at the distribution of a dataset and see that it is not bell shaped. Based on our first simulation and what we learned about the central limit theorem, what is one possible reason why that may be?
- There may be one (or only a few) causal factors dominating how the dataset is generated.