Data Science with R for Psychologists and Healthcare Professionals PDF
by Christian (University College Cork, Ireland) Ryan
Description
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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- Format:PDF
- Pages:312 pages, 5 Tables, black and white; 8 Illustrations, color; 131 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:22/12/2021
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- ISBN:9781000530568
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:312 pages, 5 Tables, black and white; 8 Illustrations, color; 131 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:22/12/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781000530568
