WMCapacityConsole {WMCapacity}R Documentation

Start GUI for working memory capacity estimation.

Description

WMCapacityConsole is the non-GUI interface for estimating parameters of working memory models. This function is useful for simulations.

Usage

     WMCapacityConsole(data=NULL,filename=NULL,setup,name="Analysis")
     

Arguments

data a data frame containing the trial-by-trial data to be analyzed.
filename the name of a CSV file containing the trial-by-trial data to be analyzed.
setup object of class WM2Package, containing all the necessary information necessary to start an analysis.
name analysis name, used for naming output files.

Details

This function is the non-GUI interface for estimating working memory capacity from change detection data, using the hierarchical Bayesian models described in Morey (in preparation).

There are a number of ways of passing data to the function. If you have the trial-by-trial data already loaded in R, you can pass the data via the data argument. If it is in a file, you can load it by passing the path via the filename argument. The setup argument is required; the passed object will contain the details of the model to be fitted.

The best way to use this function is to fit the model to data using the GUI interface WMCapacityGUI, saving the returned object. Then, new data can be analyzed by passing the object via the setup argument. Note that for this to work, the new data must have the same column names as the old data.

For further details, see the user's manual at drsmorey.org/research/rdmorey/.

Value

An object of class WM2Package.

See Also

WMCapacityGUI, for the GUI interface.

Examples

     ## Not run: 
     ## load Visual Array data set (Rouder et al., 2008)
     data(VisualArray)

     WMoutput = WMCapacityGUI(data=VisualArray)
     ## this is redundant, but it shows how it works
     WMCapacityConsole(data=VisualArray, setup=WMoutput)
     ## End(Not run)
     

[Package WMCapacity version 0.9.1 Index]