Statistics

Swirl

Install the new course, as follows:

library(swirl)
install_course_github("saq", "fes720_Statistics")

Which Test?

• How to choose a test

• Flowcharts

Testing Ratios (categorical data) SWIRL: lesson | lab

• binomial, proportion, Chi-square, and Fisher’s exact tests.

Testing Populations (categorical predictor, continuous response) SWIRL: lesson | lab

• Student’s t-test, Analysis of Variance

Testing Associations (continuous predictor, continuous response) SWIRL: lesson | lab

• correlation

• simple linear regression

Multiple Predictors

• Analysis of Covariance (a categorical and a continuous predictor)

Multiple Regression

• multiple categorical and continuous predictors

Generalized Linear Models

• Binomial data

  • SWIRL: lesson

    Lab

• Count data

  • SWIRL: lesson

Mixed Effects Models

• SWIRL: lesson

  Lab

Formulas

Testing Assumptions

Data Exploration

Recommended References

Crawley, M.J. 2007. The R Book. Wiley.

Beckerman, A.P. & Petchey, O.L. 2012. Getting Started with R. OUP.

Updated: 2016-10-12