On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 11:21:35PM -0400, Mehmet Ergun wrote: > Hi, > > I have two quick questions that I hope you can help me with. > Do you know of any classes that teach R, but for a social science > (sociology) student? > And, my stats course looks like it's gonna use / teach STATA. I know > that it has a unix version, but do you know a way to get it from UMD for > cheap or free?
Mehmet, There are a few social science and statistics classes available (my girlfriend is a sociology grad student; I can poke her if you're interested in the specifics of the classes), but none that I know of that teach R. Mostly they use SPSS and the like (apparently STATA :-). My thought though is that most of the programs have the same functionality, but the buttons are in different places/have different names.. is this not your experience? I don't really know R myself, but I can't imagine it's all that different from existing stat packages. Please let me know if I'm wrong. Iyi gunlar :-) - Rob .
