Introductory R for Criminologists

Welcome to the GitHub repo for Introductory R for Criminologists

This is the GitHub page built by Juanjo Medina, and updated and maintained by Reka Solymosi. If you need some motivation for learning data analytic tools you may watch this by Prof. Gary King in how the data world is changing and if you are a somehow sceptical criminologist you may want to read this by Prof. David Garland.

Health warnings

Please beware that:

• This page is still under considerable development (use with caution).
• These pages simply aim to describe the essence of some techniques, they do not provide a comprehensive description of these techniques and tools and how to use them.
• The handouts below use, among other data sets, a teaching version of the British Crime Survey that is available under a Open Government Licence. This dataset is designed to be a learning resource and should not be used for research purposes or the production of summary statistics.
• This dataset (and others here) was obtained from surveys using complex survey design. Proper analysis would require more specialised techniques than those introduced here.
• We do not hold a degree on statistics. We are just applied social scientists that use quantitative methods. If you detect any errors, please let us know.

Lab sessions for learning R data analysis programming

• Preamble for educators
• Preamble for students
• Week 0: Introduction to the course
• Week 1: Introduction to R
• Week 2: Graphics with ggplot2
• Week 3 Foundations for inference (confidence intervals)
• Week 4: Hypothesis tests (comparing means)
• Week 5: Relationships between two factors
• Week 6: Linear regression
• Week 7: Regression in the real world
• Week 8: Logistic regression
• Homework Activities

Complementary learning materials

Complementary learning materials

• Helpful video lectures and free online materials that can assist in following the previous lab sessions
• Links to other R learning resources
• A workbook for learning data analysis using the R Commander

Support or Contact

Having trouble or questions? Please email juanjo.medina@manchester.ac.uk. Please get in touch as well with any feedback. Your feedback, thus, is appreciated.

License

R for Criminologists by Juanjo Medina is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Cite as R-for-Criminologists. Juanjo Medina. figshare. Retrieved 7:24, Sept 02, 2014 (GMT). http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1157663.