Adventures in R: Experiences with my Dissertation

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Well, it has now been 6 months that I have been using R “regularly”. I set out from the beginning to learn R, and since the last time I attempted it, I need to make sure that I had external reasons for needing to learn it. To do that I told myself that I wouldn’t touch any statistical software that I had used previously (SPSS, SAS, MiniTab). This put me in the position that I … Read more

Adventures in R: A Function for Basic Data Screening in R

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Note: I’m using my dissertation as an excuse to learn R. I’m going to put out some of my code for others to peruse/use/improve/correct. Hopefully we can all learn a little bit from it. If you do use it or change it, please let me know in the comments what you did so I can learn too! Most statistics that you are going to run rely on a number of assumptions about your data. One … Read more

Adventures in R: A Function for Test-Retest Reliability for Two Variables in R

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Note: I’m using my dissertation as an excuse to learn R. I’m going to put out some of my code for others to peruse/use/improve/correct. Hopefully we can all learn a little bit from it. If you do use it or change it, please let me know in the comments what you did so I can learn too! I have a lot of variables to dig through for data collection, and of course, it is vastly … Read more