
- 300 pages
- English
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Data Science with R for Psychologists and Healthcare Professionals
About this book
This introduction to R for students of psychology and health sciences aims to fast-track the reader through some of the most difficult aspects of learning to do data analysis and statistics. It demonstrates the benefits for reproducibility and reliability of using a programming language over commercial software packages such as SPSS. The early chapters build at a gentle pace, to give the reader confidence in moving from a point-and-click software environment, to the more robust and reliable world of statistical coding. This is a thoroughly modern and up-to-date approach using RStudio and the tidyverse. A range of R packages relevant to psychological research are discussed in detail. A great deal of research in the health sciences concerns questionnaire data, which may require recoding, aggregation and transformation before quantitative techniques and statistical analysis can be applied. R offers many useful and transparent functions to process data and check psychometric properties. These are illustrated in detail, along with a wide range of tools R affords for data visualisation. Many introductory statistics books for the health sciences rely on toy examples - in contrast, this book benefits from utilising open datasets from published psychological studies, to both motivate and demonstrate the transition from data manipulation and analysis to published report. R Markdown is becoming the preferred method for communicating in the open science community. This book also covers the detail of how to integrate the use of R Markdown documents into the research workflow and how to use these in preparing manuscripts for publication, adhering to the latest APA style guidelines.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- 2. The R Environment
- 3. The Basics
- 4. Working Practices
- 5. Dataset Excel
- 6. Dataset csv
- 7. Dataset SPSS
- 8. Coding New Variables and Scale Reliability
- 9. Normality
- 10. Outliers
- 11. Descriptive Statistics
- 12. Graphs with ggplot2
- 13. CorrelationāBivariate
- 14. CorrelationāPartial
- 15. One-Way ANOVAāModel Data
- 16. One-Way ANOVAāReal Data
- 17. Factorial ANOVA
- 18. ANCOVA
- 19. Repeated Measures ANOVA
- 20. Regression
- 21. Non-parametric Tests
- 22. Categorical Data Analysis
- 23. What Else can R Do?
- 24. Functions
- References
- Index