If you're an SPSS/SAS user and been meaning to take the plunge into #Rstats, here's a list of resources that helped me make the switch...
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Interesting, I hadn’t considered this before!
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I really need to move away from Matlab and do more in R. It’s just the prospect of rewriting years worth of little scripts and functions I use every day that puts me off tbh.
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Were you doing your stats in Matlab?
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It’s what I learned on in undergrad and I never got out of the habit.
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What kind of stats and what kind of undergrad?
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Mostly used it stats modelling, undergrad was maths. It’s pretty handy for machine learning stuff if you avoid the built in toolboxes like the plague and download Netlab instead.
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Still not sure what kind of stats — like is there an equivalent of R's lme4 in Matlab?
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There are built in functions for GLMs and the like if that’s what you mean. I’m very much a novice with R so had to google what Ime4 even was tbh.
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Thanks for the info. I don't use R but it's pretty much the field standard for serious stats modelling of that type in Psych/CogNeuro/etc.. Python is pretty much the standard for other types, esp more ML stuff, in my area (CompCog). Altho many use Matlab, Lisp, C, etc.
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R can be quite intimidating but ultimately SPSS is worse. It gives you false sense that you understand what is going on. It makes you rigid in the methods you use. Always clicking the same button. It is fugly and uninformative visualisations.
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RStats has steep learning curve but tutorials and support materials are getting better every day. As far as I can tell SPSS hasn't really changed in 20+ years.
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