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A CCS Unix account is required to access course materials. To learn how to get an account go to the Welcome page.
We will be using R for statistical analysis. R is available on CCIS PC's, but is also available for free download from The R Project web site. The website also contains links to the R manuals and many other kinds of documentation.
An introductory tutorial for R is available here. There are many, many other tutorials and documentation pages for R, just Google "R tutorial".
RStudio is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for R that simplifies many tasks, such as importing data and exporting charts, and provides a context-sensitive editor and integrated help. It can be downloaded for free from here, and should also be installed on CCIS computers.
RCommander and other graphical front ends for R are not recommended. None of them support all of the analyses required for class.
Some other online statistics texts and tutorials:
Places to look for measures include the ACM Digital Library, the PsycInfo bibliographic database (esp. for psychological questionnaires), and PubMed (esp. for health-related measures and questionnaires).
Another good source of measures is the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST): it is their mission to develop standardized measures for just about
everything you can imagine. Their Information
Technology Laboratory provides measurements for the IT industry.