Introducing «R» free software contributions to the psychological research process
Keywords:
Statistical package, Polychoric correlation, Power analysis, Free software, R project.Abstract
The main purpose of this article is to introduce the free software for statistical analysis called R, that allows conducting among other many calculus, two important analyses non available in the common non-free software (e. g.SPSS): power analysis and polychoric correlations. In addition, the basic R commands related to the most common statistical analysis in psychology researchare described.Downloads
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2013-02-14
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