Data Analysis for Economics and Business
Channel 1
MARIA FELICE AREZZO
Lecturers' profile
Program - Frequency - Exams
Course program
II An introduction to R
• 3 Getting started with R
3.1 Installing R
3.2 Typing commands at the R console
3.3 Doing simple calculations with R
3.4 Storing a number as a variable
3.5 Using functions to do calculations
3.6 Letting Rstudio help you with your commands
3.7 Storing many numbers as a vector
3.8 Storing text data
3.9 Storing "true or false" data
3.10 Indexing vectors
3.11 Quitting R
• 4 Additional R concepts
4.1 Using comments
4.2 Installing and loading packages
4.3 Managing the workspace
4.4 Navigating the le system
4.5 Loading and saving data
4.6 Useful things to know about variables
4.7 Factors
4.8 Data frames
4.9 Lists
4.10 Formulas
4.11 Generic functions
4.12 Getting help
III Working with data
• 5 Descriptive statistics
5.1 Measures of central tendency
5.2 Measures of variability
5.3 Skew and kurtosis
5.4 Getting an overall summary of a variable
5.5 Descriptive statistics separately for each group
5.6 Standard scores
5.7 Correlations
5.8 Handling missing values
• 6 Drawing graphs
6.1 An overview of R graphics
6.2 An introduction to plotting
6.3 Histograms
6.4 Stem and leaf plots
6.5 Boxplots
6.6 Scatterplots
6.7 Bar graphs
6.8 Saving image using R and Rstudio
• 7 Pragmatic matters
7.1 Tabulating and cross-tabulating data
7.2 Transforming and recoding a variable
7.3 A few more mathematical functions and operations
7.4 Extracting a subset of a vector
7.5 Extracting a subset of a data frame
7.6 Sorting
7.7 Reshaping a data frame
7.8 Working with text
7.9 Reading unusual data
7.10 Coercing data from one class to another
7.11 Other useful data structures
7.12 Miscellaneous topics
• 8 Basic programming
8.1 Scripts
8.2 Loops
Prerequisites
None
Frequency
Strongly advised
Exam mode
Write a debug code in R
Lesson mode
Lessons in presence to be held in a computer lab
MARIA FELICE AREZZO
Lecturers' profile
- Lesson codeAAF2452
- Academic year2024/2025
- CourseBusiness sciences
- CurriculumBusiness Management (in lingua inglese)
- Year1st year
- Semester2nd semester
- CFU3
- Subject areaAltre conoscenze utili per l'inserimento nel mondo del lavoro