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Number of Phones in a word: Numerical or Categorical Data?
What you describe sounds like an interaction between lexical status and number of phones (do you mean phonemes?) in a model for reaction times.
Take a look at the interaction plots at the Wikipedia ...
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multicollinearity and categorical variables
What matters for multicollinearity is whether or not we can linearly combine some columns into another one, or equivalently combine all of them nontrivially into the zero vector, see e.g. Perfect ...
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Number of Phones in a word: Numerical or Categorical Data?
Some basics wrt psycholinguistics may help CV participants here (the OP undoubtedly knows this). First, the field posits that linguistic perception is categorical, "the grouping of like items ...
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My dataset includes multiple variable and all of these variables have sub-variables. How to visualise & test which segment is significant?
If you want to identify which issues and sub-issues tend to co-occur in your dataset, multiple correspondance analysis may be an adequate tool here, for exploratory purposes. Treating "No" ...
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GAMM using mgcv in R: by participant random effects for categorical variables
You want
model <- bam(error ~ s(participant, bs = "re") +
s(participant, difference, bs = "re"), data = data_for_gamm)
If you want ...
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Categorical data with expected frequencies in some categories lower than 5
Your expectation is that no one in your population of interest would choose the last three options, and instead would choose equally between the two first options. Obviously, this is not the case, as ...
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Which dissimilarity index to use with categorical ecological data
It looks like you have an ordinal variable. This is sometimes used for plant species but also some microorganisms. I'd first inform R that those columns are an ordinal factor:
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Assessing the quality of clustering unlabeled categorical data
My method isn't traditional and it isn't numeric.
I look at various clusterings and ask whether they tell me anything I didn't know before, give me insight into the data, answer my research questions, ...
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