Library Subject Guides
Resources and workshops introducing how to use statistics software. These guides focus on SPSS, RStudio and STATA.
Please contact maths-skills-centre
This session is for people who have never used SPSS before or who want a refresher. You will learn how to get data in, quick ways of cleaning your data and how to create graphs in SPSS.
Getting started with SPSS slides
Make a copy of the slides used in the workshop for your own note keeping.
Make a copy of the data set to use during the workshop.
This workshop will get you using STATA statistical software so you understand what the software is and the basics of the coding language used by STATA. In this introduction, you will look at data, clean data and run simple tests and graphs. No prior knowledge of computer coding needed to attend this session.
Getting started with STATA slides
Make a copy of the slides used in the workshop for your own note keeping.
Make a copy of the data set to use during the workshop.
View the commands used during the workshop. Copy and paste the commands into a blank .do file to run them during the workshop.
This workshop introduces the RStudio interface and gets you started with importing, managing and plotting data. You don't need to have done any coding before!
Getting started with RStudio slides
Make a copy of the slides used in the workshop for your own note keeping.
Make a copy of the data set to use during the workshop.
View the functions used during the workshop. Copy and paste the functions into a blank R script to run them during the workshop.