Monthly Archives: June 2016

Recommended: Institute for Digital Research and Education — Statistical Computing

This is a wonderful site, but for some reason, it is difficult to find. The Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) at UCLA has put together some wonderful resources on how to do simple data analyses in R, SAS, SPSS, and Stata. The examples cover just about everything you’d ever want to do in any of these statistical packages. If you are making a transition from one statistical package to another, this site offers you the opportunity to see how things are done in the package you know well and compare it to how things are done in the package you are learning. Of special note are the worked textbook examples from many classic statistics textbooks. Continue reading

PMean: Can you recommend an introductory book on Bayesian Statistics

I got an email asking for a recommendation for an introductory book on Bayesian Statistics from someone who recently graduated from our program. It’s kind of a difficult request because the mathematical demands needed to understand Bayesian statistics are not trivial. Here’s what I recommended. Continue reading

PMean: Introduction to R, Monday, August 8 through Friday, August 12, 2016

I will be teaching a one semester hour class at UMKC, Introduction to R (MEDB 5505) on Monday, August 8, 2016 through Friday, August 12, 2016. It runs from 9am to noon on all five days. This is part of a series of classes that cover a basic introduction to statistical packages: data import, data management, simple graphs, and simple descriptive statistics. The other classes (MEDB 5506 and MEDB 5507) cover SPSS and SAS.

Here are some details about this class. Continue reading