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2004 Aug 14
0
SPSS, social science majors, and R
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> That is why I wanted to ask the list if anyone has faced the same
>situation to persuade students to use R. Are social science students most
>impressionable with some nice graphs (e.g. filled.contour) or will they get
>a more positive attitude if I used the "R as an overgrown calculator" like
>in Peter Dalgaards book? Or should I write an SPSS script to perform a
>certain task and demonstrate how easy, compact, and elegant it is to fulfill
>the same job in R? Just telling them "We will use R during our course"
>without any explanation would be...
2004 Aug 12
9
Giving a first good impression of R to Social Scientists
Dear all,
in the coming Winter Semester, I will be a teaching assistant for a course
in Survival Analysis. My job will be to do the lab sessions. The software
used for these lab sessions will be R. Most of the students have a
background in social sciences and the only stats package they used so far is
most likely SPSS.
So I assume they might be quite surprised the first time they see R