Welcome to this 2-hour long project-based course Calculating Descriptive Statistics in R. In this project, you will learn how to perform extensive descriptive statistics on both quantitative and qualitative variables in R. You will also learn how to calculate the frequency and percentage of categorical variables and check the distribution of quantitative variables. By extension, you will learn how to perform univariate and bivariate statistics for univariate and bivariate variables in R.
Calculating Descriptive Statistics in R
Instructor: Arimoro Olayinka Imisioluwa
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Calculate basic descriptive statistics for qualitative variables
Calculate basic descriptive statistics for quantitative variables
Check the distribution of quantitative variables
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In a video that plays in a split-screen with your work area, your instructor will walk you through these steps:
Getting Started
Import & Explore data sets
Frequency of categorical variables
Univariate statistics for univariate variables - Part I
Univariate statistics for univariate variables - Part II
Distribution of Quantitative variable
Bivariate statistics for variables
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Basic knowledge of Statistics and using R
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