RStats Workshop Series: Part II
Details
WHO is this for?
- If you are new to R & are short-budgeted on time!
- If you'd like to start working with data in R w/o learning all the programming details first!!
- If you have a neat data set you'd like to explore w/ basic statistics!
- If you are getting started with base R and want to learn more #rstats!
- If any of this is true, this workshop might be for you!
- Come EARLY (545p) for help with set-up, questions reg. tidyverse.
WHAT are we planning?
RStats Workshop: Part II
- Using Existing Data OR Loading Yours
- Viewing the Structure of your Data
- Transforming your Data: Basic transformations: z-score, log
- Intro to Probability Distributions: Skewness, Kurtosis
- Checking Normality of Distributions: Shapiro-Wilk vs Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Descriptive stats
- (Intro to) Association Tests: Correlations
- Excel/SAS/SPSS vs R?
- If time permits (if not, part III):
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Hypothesis testing using chi-square tests, t-tests, ANOVAs
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Power analyses
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Handling missing & duplicate data (see R packages ‘mixRasch’, ‘mice’, others)
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Parts III, IV of 'Learning Statistics with R' by Dani Navarro (https://learningstatisticswithr.com/book).
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Statistical exploration of the gapminder dataset w/ R
- For 'RStats Workshop: Part I' material, check out the material on Google Drive (http://bit.ly/rlel-meetup-presentations-gd), GitHub (http://bit.ly/rlel-meetup-presentations-gh) or our Slack channels (https://rladies-eastlansing.slack.com; #workshop-rstats #20190128-rstats).
AGENDA
6:00–6:10 Meet & Greet | 🍕| Set-up
6:10–6:20 Who we are | Announcements | What's next
6:20–7:25 Workshop: Intro to Statistics w/ R
7:25–7:30 Any more Qs? How to reach us to continue this conversation!
SET-UP INSTRUCTIONS
- please bring your laptop w/
- pre-installed R & RStudio (https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/) OR use RStudio Cloud (https://rstudio.cloud)
- Install packages: tidyverse, gapminder, psych
- Having trouble with installation & set-up? Ping us on Slack! Or come 15min early!
Useful Resources
- Past workshop and meetup materials from 2018: http://bit.ly/rlel-meetup-presentations-gd & http://bit.ly/rlel-meetup-presentations-gh
- Relevant R (incl. tidyverse & ggplot2) & Slack cheatsheets: http://bit.ly/rlel-gdrive-cheatsheets
- Learning Statistics with R by Danielle Navarro (https://learningstatisticswithr.com/book/)
- Hands-On Programming with R by G Grolemund (https://rstudio-education.github.io/hopr/) & R for Data Science by H Wickham & G Grolemund (https://r4ds.had.co.nz/)
- Start the discussion on Slack: https://rladies-eastlansing.slack.com OR http://bit.ly/rlel-slack-signup (if you are a new member) #workshop-rstats channel
** Questions reg. Slack/workshop? Email us: eastlansing@rladies.org
💰Sponsor: Early Language and Literacy Investigations Laboratory, MSU (ELLI lab https://ellilab.com; https://facebook.com/ellilab)
Special credit: Dani Navarro, R-Ladies Sydney!
