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Up and Running with R

Up and Running with R

with Barton Poulson

 


Join author Barton Poulson as he introduces the R statistical processing language, including how to install R on your computer, read data from SPSS and spreadsheets, and use packages for advanced R functions.

The course continues with examples on how to create charts and plots, check statistical assumptions and the reliability of your data, look for data outliers, and use other data analysis tools. Finally, learn how to get charts and tables out of R and share your results with presentations and web pages.
Topics include:
  • What is R?
  • Installing R
  • Creating bar character for categorical variables
  • Building histograms
  • Calculating frequencies and descriptives
  • Computing new variables
  • Creating scatterplots
  • Comparing means

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author
Barton Poulson
subject
Developer, Programming Languages
software
R
level
Beginner
duration
2h 25m
released
Apr 04, 2013

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Barton Poulson

Barton Poulson

Barton Poulson has bridged the analytic and aesthetic for most of his life, with a background in industrial design, a Ph.D. in social and personality psychology, and a deep love for data analysis and data visualization as well as the visual and performing arts. Bart is an associate professor of psychology at Utah Valley University and has studied at Brigham Young University, the University of Utah, and the City University of New York. In his role as a teacher of research and analysis, he has conducted hundreds of studies with his students on topics from social identity and aspirations to implicit preferences for poetry and architecture. Bart and his wife, Jacque Lynn Bell, a modern dance choreographer, live with their three children in beautiful Salt Lake City.
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SPSS Statistics Essential Training Beginner 5h 5m 08/2011  {8}
Interactive Data Visualization with Processing Beginner 7h 43m 09/2012  {8}
Projects for Interactive Data Visualization with Processing Intermediate 1h 41m 04/2013  {8}
Up and Running with R Beginner 2h 25m 04/2013  {8}

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