langcog/wordbankr

add create_norms() and get_norm_scores() functions?

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kachergis commented

Background:

  • lots of people ask for norms, and we've duplicated effort (and scripts) across projects
  • it's a standard procedure (although we don't have demographics for many languages: just EN and SP):
  • look up by age and sex, look up in manual tables and interpolate between 5 percentiles, etc..

Potential solutions:

  1. offer 'standard' script (on GH / email with proper warnings) -> or just a wordbankr function? (with good documentation and a vignette example)
  2. scoring tool (in wordbankr, shiny, or both?): import your CSV (id, age, sex, sumscore) - too many people used it incorrectly... (need to clearly document expected mismatch between published tables and wordbank %iles)
  3. add 'wordbank_percentile' column to https://wordbank.stanford.edu/data/?name=admin_data

@vmarchman , @alvinwmtan and I thought adding functionality to wordbankr makes the most sense, as it offers (sophisticated) users the option of using our SotA that should match published norms where we have them

kachergis commented

@mcfrank your thoughts welcome!

mcfrank commented