grambank / rgrambank

R package to access and analyse Grambank's CLDF data
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new function: make theo scores #5

Closed HedvigS closed 1 year ago

HedvigS commented 1 year ago

Adaptation of these two scripts:

To calculate the theoretical scores (fusion, informativity etc).

SimonGreenhill commented 1 year ago

Question: do these have any use outside the previous paper? this type of function tends to get stale very quickly as it has limited reusability for other people.

HedvigS commented 1 year ago

It has a use outside of the release paper, in the paper on social effects on complexity. It would have been good to have this function in the process of writing the code there.

I do not currently know other papers that need this, but it's a popular part of the release paper and I think it would be practical to be able to easily derive the counts for new versions of Grambank.

HedvigS commented 1 year ago

Angela told me yesterday that she would benefit from this function in the disparity project. So, that's at least one future paper using it besides me and Olena for already submitted things.