- Introduction to R and RStudio with Gapminder data
- Getting data into R reading csv, Stata, SPSS, Excel files
- Descriptive statistics
- R functions for descriptive statistics
- Subsetting data
- Plotting data with ggplot2 (1)
- Missing values (NA)
- %>%: The Pipe Operator
- Joining Datasets
- Joining Datasets: An application
- Miscellaneous Useful Functions
- Application: WDI cleaning with dplyr and tidyr
- Intro to dplyr and tidyr using gapminder
- Distributions in R
- Loops in R
- Sampling Distributions and Confidence Intervals
- Confidence Intervals of the Mean through Simulation in R
- Hypothesis Testings of the Mean through Simulation in R
- t-tests and ANOVA in R
- Proportion and Chi-squared tests in R
- Proportion and Chi-squared tests in R
Miscellaneous
- Data sources: A list of data sources useful to political scientists
- Installing Software: How to install R and other software for this course
- Finding Help with R
- Data Analysis Project Paper Guidelines
- Going from Stata to R
- Labs: links to datasets and other info