Research Design and Analysis Unit offers free "Introduction to R course"

The Research Design and Analysis Unit (RDA) is hosting a free online "Introduction to R" course this summer. The course will be hosted online from June 1 to July 26, 2020 (8 weeks). It is designed for any graduate students or postdocs interested in discovering more about the open-source statistical software R and more generally, statistical analyses/data management. Prior experience in R is not required and graduate students and postdocs from any department/discipline are eligible to participate.

The format of this course will be a combination of online demonstrations/lectures, hands-on activities, and an independent final project. A "certificate of completion" will be awarded to students who actively participate in the workshop activities (i.e., those students who complete weekly assignments/the final project and watch the weekly pre-recorded lectures/tutorials).

Participants can expect to:

  • Learn the basics of R such as importing and exporting data.
  • Learn about R data structures and R packages.
  • Learn strategies for data manipulation within R (compute, recode, selecting cases, etc.).
  • Work through examples of how to conduct basic statistical analyses in R (descriptive, correlation, regression, T-test, ANOVA).
  • Learn how to graph the results of basic statistical analyses in R.
  • This course will be facilitated by the RDA Unit's director Dr. Ty Partridge and consultants Laura Pineault and Sabrina Bierstetel. To reserve your spot in the course, please email RDAUnit@wayne.edu with your name and contact information. Space is limited to the first 50 who register.

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