R for Economists

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The purpose of the course is to introduce you to data analysis using the powerful and increasingly popular R language. The hope is that by the end you will have learned enough to carry out basic statistical projects. The course will fall roughly into three parts. The first will be how to enter and manipulate data in R. The second is how to present data and results graphically. The third part is In effect an applied econometrics module where we will run through a variety of useful techniques, showing how they can be computed in R. Alongside traditional regression techniques we will devote some time to machine learning. The emphasis throughout the course will be on taking real world data and figuring out how to analyse it in a sensible way and how to present the results of our analysis in an easily understandable way.