Rob Sherwood wrote: > 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 > . >
Rob, Merhaba ;) (does everyone in this university know some Turkish or what?? :)) I am a socy grad myself. I'm taking a stats course that's gonna teach STATA (they say SPSS is not cool anymore -all the same for me). Unfortunately, my primitive experience with R is that there are very few buttons to play with, a lot of commands and syntax to learn, and a lot of statistical background needed to be able to master those syntax(es?)... I might be wrong though, this is coming afterall from someone who thought Linux was for programmers ;) As per Scott's suggestion, I'll look into Stat 750 - do you have any suggestions as to the instructor for that course? Who is easy / crazy? Thanks a lot Mehmet.
