I would recommend it. I have no experience teaching statistics to psychology students, but I have done a sequence of hands-on workshops introducing R to a class of high school students who were engaged in a three-year-long science research class. My presentations were not discipline-specific, and we have just barely gotten into any real statistical concepts so far. Mainly it was the nuts and bolts of how to use base R; the advantages of writing and saving code over a point-and-click interface, reproducible research and all; and a lot of graphics. End of last session we just started to tackle the concepts of sample versus population, and sampling variation. I could share with you my org file where I stored all the commands and notes, if it would be of any use.
--Chris Ryan SUNY Upstate Medical University Binghamton, NY Spencer Graves wrote: > Hello, All: > > > Would anyone recommend R for an introductory statistics class for > freshman psychology students in the US? If yes, might there be any > notes for such available? > > > I just checked r-projects.org and CRAN contributed documentation > and found nothing. > > > I have a friend who teaches such a class, and wondered if R might > be suitable. The alternative is SPSS at $406 per student. > > > Thanks, > Spencer > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
