qualification area: scientific practice (Graduiertenakademie)

This course is designed for students, PhD students and postdocs of all scientific areas who would like to learn how to use R for statistical data analysis.

The course is not suitable for participants without basic knowledge about statistics. The course is suitable for participants with prior knowledge about statistics but without prior knowledge about using the software R.

During the first day, we will walk through the basics of handling data sets in R (importing data, exporting data, modifying data in R, plotting data, descriptive statistics). On the second day, we will learn how to perform statistical analysis, such as two sample tests, correlation analysis, simple linear regression analysis, and ANOVA.