Course Outline

User Interfaces

Deducer - a clickable gui for R

Data Wrangling

basic data structures in R: vector, list, data frame
indexing
data types, type conversions
read data from different file types (txt, csv, excel)
combining two data frames
combining more than two data frames
dplyr, a package for data manipulation, reshaping, summarizing
download data

Functions

understand R functions
generic functions, classes
the apply family

Graphics

ggplot2

Basic Data Analysis

oulier detection: visual methods and tests
graphics for grouped data
classical tests
models/Anova
repeated measures Anova

Analysis of Longitudinal Data

Exploring Longitudinal Data on Change:
- Descriptive Analysis of Individual Change
- Difference in Change across People
Multilevel Models for Change
Missing Data