Penn State

1. DataAnalysis inWF ED
24 September 2015

2.  1800: Class meeting promptly begins
 1800–1830: Discussion of plan for Class Meeting 5; questions
& issues not resolved by the course syllabus.
 1830–1845: Review of basic statistical concepts and decision-
making
 1845–1915: Anatomy lesson — Basic Components of an APA
table; test your knowledge of anatomy
 1915–1930: Rest break
 1930–2100: Lecture/demonstration on table creation in
MSWord; practice with creation of tables.
 2100: Class meeting ends (earlier, if agenda completed
earlier)

3.  Tonight:
• Lecture/discussion
about creating APA-
compliant tables
• Practice creating APA-
compliant tables
• Hope you did the pre-
meeting prep

4.  October 1:
• Use of R for testing simple
hypothesis testing and
constructing confidence
intervals
• Reporting hypothesis
testing in RMarkdown
• Specification of
Assignment 2 (involves
conducting and reporting
hypothesis tests and
confidence intervals)

5.  October 8:
• Assignment 2 due
• More on uses of
hypothesis tests of
difference between
means, independence of
dimensions in tables,
and slopes of regression
lines

6.  October 15:
• Mid–term examination
• A problem–solving
exercise that involves all
R, RMarkdown, and
table preparation skills
considered through
October 8

7.  Basic R syntax, command,
functions, operators
 Read .csv locally or
remotely
 Tidy data with tbl_df
function
 Use dplyr actions: filter,
select, mutate, summarise
 Creation an RPubs site
from a RMarkdown report
that includes R code
chunks
 Tests of statistical null
hypotheses & construction
of confidence intervals of
differences between
means, independence of
dimensions in tables, &
slopes of regression lines
 Composition of an APA-
compliant table to report
the outcomes of data
analysis

11. DataAnalysis inWF ED
24 September 2015