7  Visualising Model Estimates

In this chapter…

Chapter Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

By the end of this chapter, you should be able to:

7.1 Chapter preparation

In this chapter, we need a few different datasets, so we will introduce them as we need them.

7.1.1 Organising your files and project for the chapter

Before we can get started, you need to organise your files and project for the chapter, so your working directory is in order.

  1. In your folder for statistics and research design Stats_Research_Design, create a new folder called 06_ordinal. Within 06_ordinal, create two new folders called data and figures.

  2. Create an R Project for 06_ordinal as an existing directory for your chapter folder. This should now be your working directory.

  3. Create a new Quarto document and give it a sensible title describing the chapter, such as 06 Ordinal Regression. Save the file in your 06_ordinal folder.

  4. We are working with a few data sets in this chapter, so please save the following zip file containing all the data files you need: Chapter 05 Data. Right click the link and select “save link as”, or clicking the link will save the file to your Downloads. Extract the files and make sure that you save them as “.csv”. Save or copy the files to your data/ folder within 06_ordinal.

You are now ready to start working on the chapter!

7.2 Test Yourself

Now you have followed along to a guided example, it is important you can transfer your knowledge to a new scenario. So, we have a new data set for you to try out your understanding of these techniques on. Follow the instructions below and answer the questions. The solution is there to check your answers against, but make sure you try the activities independently first.