Getting Up to Speed with SPSS, Stata, SAS, and R

4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Preparation: basic statistics, basic computer literacy. Study of four commonly employed solutions—SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences), Stata, SAS (Statistical Analysis System), and R—for data analytic and statistical issues in health sciences, engineering, economics, and government. Emphasis on applied problem solving, measurement issues in data analysis, use of computer for analysis of large-scale data. P/NP or letter grading.