Distribution of Scrabble pieces
Distribution and point values of letters in Scrabble.
data(scrabble)
A data frame with 27 observations on the following 3 variables.
Which piece
point value
Number of pieces
Scrabble is a popular board game based on forming words from the players' pieces. These consist of letters drawn from a pile at random. The game has a certain frequency of letters given by this data. These match fairly well with the letter distribution of the English language.
data(scrabble) ## perform chi-squared analysis on long string. Is it in English? quote = " R is a language and environment for statistical computing \ and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language \ and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly \ AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R \ can be considered as a different implementation of S. There are \ some important differences, but much code written for S runs \ unaltered under R." quote.lc = tolower(quote) quote = unlist(strsplit(quote.lc,"")) ltr.dist = sapply(c(letters," "),function(x) sum(quote == x)) chisq.test(ltr.dist,,scrabble$freq)
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