infer R Package

Authors

Andrew Bray
Chester Ismay
Evgeni Chasnovski
Simon Couch
Benjamin Baumer, Smith CollegeFollow
Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel

Document Type

Data

Publication Date

2019

Abstract

The objective of this package is to perform statistical inference using an expressive statistical grammar that coheres with the tidyverse design framework. The package is centered around 4 main verbs, supplemented with many utilities to visualize and extract value from their outputs.

• specify() allows you to specify the variable, or relationship between variables, that you’re interested in.
• hypothesize() allows you to declare the null hypothesis.
• generate() allows you to generate data reflecting the null hypothesis.
• calculate() allows you to calculate a distribution of statistics from the generated data to form the null distribution.

Comments

infer is a part of the tidymodels ecosystem, a collection of modeling packages designed with common APIs and a shared philosophy.

Recommended Citation

Bray, Andrew; Ismay, Chester; Chasnovski, Evgeni; Couch, Simon; Baumer, Benjamin; and Cetinkaya-Rundel, Mine, "infer R Package" (2019). Data, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/dds_data/7