Re: [R] R for a stats intro for undergrads in the US?

Dear Spencer, In case you have similar questions you may want to ask them on r-sig-teaching, which deals specifically with such topics. Regards, Liviu On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Spencer Graves spencer.gra...@prodsyse.com wrote: Hello, All: Would anyone recommend R for an

Re: [R] R for a stats intro for undergrads in the US?

Dear Spencer, I regularly use R (via the R Commander) for intro stats courses taught to third-year sociology undergrads (in Canada). Without knowing where your friend teaches, it's hard to know what her students are like, but in my experience psychology students are generally more numerate than

Re: [R] R for a stats intro for undergrads in the US?

Hi, John: Thanks very much. That sounds like pretty close to what my friend needs -- especially the comparison of Rcmdr with SPSS. (My friend teaches at Santa Clara University, a private university supported by the Catholic Church located in Santa Clara, California. I don't know, but I'd

Re: [R] R for a stats intro for undergrads in the US?

Googling R for psychology students I found this: http://health.adelaide.edu.au/psychology/ccs/docs/lsr/lsr-0.3.pdf and this: https://personality-project.org/r/ The latter has links to many short courses and tutorials. If you do end up using R, I find the following sites extremely helpful:

Re: [R] R for a stats intro for undergrads in the US?

I would recommend it. I have no experience teaching statistics to psychology students, but I have done a sequence of hands-on workshops introducing R to a class of high school students who were engaged in a three-year-long science research class. My presentations were not discipline-specific, and

[R] R for a stats intro for undergrads in the US?

Hello, All: Would anyone recommend R for an introductory statistics class for freshman psychology students in the US? If yes, might there be any notes for such available? I just checked r-projects.org and CRAN contributed documentation and found nothing. I have a

Re: [R] R for a stats intro for undergrads in the US?

Hi Spencer, I would definitely recommend R for introductory stats. course because it is free and easy to learn. You can visit www.twotorials.com for two-minute tutorials on R. Also www.coursera.org offers many free courses on R, for intro stats check this out:

Re: [R] R for a stats intro for undergrads in the US?

Hi, Umair Durrani: Thanks very much for the quick reply. The course you mentioned does not feature psychology, that I could see. However, my friend might be able to use pieces of that course in hers. Thanks again. Spencer On 11/16/2013 7:58 PM, umair durrani wrote: