The Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research

Introduction to RBook on Introduction to Data Analysis Part 1

Dates: 1st February 2012
Duration: 1 day (10am — 4:30pm)
Level: Introductory
Course Fee: £175 (£125 for those from educational institutions)

CCSR offers 5 free places to research staff and students within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester and the North West Doctoral Training Centre.

Course Leader: Dr Mark Tranmer

Course Summary

This course is aimed at people who wish to familiarise themselves with R. It serves as a pre-requisite for the statistical analysis of social networks course, but taken as a one-day course, it is also suitable for anyone interested in using R more generally. R is a command language that can be used to carry out standard statistical analyses but also has powerful facilities to enable users to create their own routines or implement methods designed by other researchers.

The course will:

  • Introduce participants to the R environment
  • Explain how to enter data and run simple descriptive statistical methods
  • Describe how to run standard procedures
  • Show how to run commands designed by other researchers and how to develop commands for non-standard analyses.

For background materials, software and reading please go to http://www.r-project.org/

 

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