POLS 2000 Webbook 2.0

Author

Bill Wilkerson

Published

November 13, 2024

Preface

This semester you are conducting a quantitative project using an NSF-funded curriculum, Passion Driven Statistics. This is a set of tutorials—text and video—to support your work. My goal has been to keep these tutorials as simple as possible. You may need to go beyond these tutorials to conduct your research. I am here to help. Along the way you will learn to:

manage your data
explore your data through graphs (or in R terms plot your data)
test hypotheses using your data

This is a first draft. I ask that as you use these tutorials, you will note errors and suggest improvements.

In addition to Passion Driven Statistics, these tutorials borrow from the following:

Data Carpentry
Modern Dive
The PowerMutt Project
RLadies Sydney

And a big thanks to Ed Beck of the SUNY Oneonta TLTC for getting this project moving and for all of his good advice—that I sometimes ignore to my detriment—since the pandemic began.