Types and Sources of Data and an Introduction to R
In this unit:
- Know about different interfaces and packages used in R.
- Importing and saving Data in R.
- Explain the importance of statistics to business.
- Explore how data can be summarised in different formats.
- Understand different types of measurement scales.
- Determine levels of measurement and performing descriptive statistics analysis in R.
R and RStudio Data Activities
Using the Crime Survey for England and Wales, 2013-2014: Unrestricted Access Teaching Dataset, assess the level of anti-social behaviour that the survey respondents experience in their neighbourhood by creating a summary statistic, using the ‘antisocx’ variable.
Summary statistics are shown in R Studio in the image on the left.