STAT 138 - Use of Statistical Software Packages
Course Description
This course covers the use of database software, spreadsheet and statistical software packages for data management.
Course Learning Outcomes
After completion of the course, the student should be able to:
- Demonstrate awareness of the different statistical software packages available;
- Manage to operate some statistical software packages such as SPSS, SAS, and R;
- Create, import, manipulate/edit, manage data using different statistical software packages; and
- Perform basic statistical analysis on these software packages
Course Outline
UNIT 1. Introduction to R and RStudio
- Preliminaries
- Simple Manipulations: Numbers and Vectors
- Objects, their Modes and Attributes
- Lists and Data Frames
- Getting Data into R
- Probability Distribution
- Summarizing Data
- Graphs
- Packages
- Functions
UNIT 2. Introduction to SAS
- Getting Started Using SAS
- Getting Data into SAS
- Working with Data
- Modifying and Combining Datasets
- Understanding Your SAS Session
- Using Basic SAS Procedures (Proc)
UNIT 3. Introduction to SPSS
- The Data Editor
- The Output Navigator
- Creating and Manipulating Data
- Generate Descriptive Statistics
- Data Transformations
- File Handling and File Transformations
- Graphs
- Syntax
UNIT 4. Other Software Applications
- Jamovi
- Stata
- Microsoft Excel
- Python
- Jasp