1 Overview
These sessions are intended to enable you to perform additional data analysis techniques appropriately and confidently using R or Python.
Ongoing formative assessment exercises
No formal assessment
No mathematical derivations
No pen and paper calculations
They are not a “how to mindlessly use a stats program” course!
1.1 Core aims
To know what to do when presented with an non-standard dataset e.g.
- Know how to deal with non-normal data
- Know how to analyse count data
- Be able to deal with random effects
1.3 Datasets
This course uses various data sets. The easiest way of accessing these is by creating an R-project in RStudio. Then download the data folder here by right-clicking on the link and Save as…. Next unzip the file and copy it into your working directory. Your data should then be accessible via <working-directory-name>/data.