Comments on: Stats 101: Chapter 5 http://wmbriggs.com/blog/2008/05/20/stats-101-chapter-5/ "All manner of statistical analyses cheerfully undertaken." Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:32:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Mike D. http://wmbriggs.com/blog/2008/05/20/stats-101-chapter-5/#comment-7006 Mike D. Wed, 21 May 2008 20:44:02 +0000 http://wmbriggs.com/blog/2008/05/20/stats-101-chapter-5/#comment-7006 Might be worth a blog post to review the history of R and it's place in the Pantheon of Knowledge. R vastly outshines Wikipedia in that regard. R might be the Greatest Achievement of Mankind So Far. I might be overstating, but maybe not. What else rates so high? TV? Prozac? The wheel? R is the one good excuse for owning a computer. To know R is to love R. To not know R is be incompletely evolved as a human being. R is deep, yet there is a shallow end of the pool for beginning swimmers. I hope there is lab section to the course, where students can be gently introduced to R. Hands-on, trial and error, with practice exercises. What helps is to accumulate worksheets with different commands. Build 3-ring-binder books, one lab at a time. R water-wings. Might be worth a blog post to review the history of R and it’s place in the Pantheon of Knowledge. R vastly outshines Wikipedia in that regard. R might be the Greatest Achievement of Mankind So Far. I might be overstating, but maybe not. What else rates so high? TV? Prozac? The wheel?

R is the one good excuse for owning a computer. To know R is to love R. To not know R is be incompletely evolved as a human being. R is deep, yet there is a shallow end of the pool for beginning swimmers.

I hope there is lab section to the course, where students can be gently introduced to R. Hands-on, trial and error, with practice exercises. What helps is to accumulate worksheets with different commands. Build 3-ring-binder books, one lab at a time. R water-wings.

]]> By: Briggs http://wmbriggs.com/blog/2008/05/20/stats-101-chapter-5/#comment-6929 Briggs Wed, 21 May 2008 08:45:33 +0000 http://wmbriggs.com/blog/2008/05/20/stats-101-chapter-5/#comment-6929 Harry, No error, well, not error on the computer's part. I forgot to actually upload the thing. It's there now. Thanks. Harry,

No error, well, not error on the computer’s part. I forgot to actually upload the thing.

It’s there now.

Thanks.

]]> By: HarryG http://wmbriggs.com/blog/2008/05/20/stats-101-chapter-5/#comment-6920 HarryG Wed, 21 May 2008 07:43:41 +0000 http://wmbriggs.com/blog/2008/05/20/stats-101-chapter-5/#comment-6920 Sorry to report Briggs that an error reports when I try to access Chap 5. What am I going to do for reading on the train tonight then? Sorry to report Briggs that an error reports when I try to access Chap 5. What am I going to do for reading on the train tonight then?

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