Data 505: Statistics Using R

Welcome to the DATA 505 website for Fall 2025 at Drew University. The course is “Statistics Using R”.

Course description

Covers how to use real-world data and draw intelligent conclusions on it using univariate and bivariate descriptive statistics such as centrality, spread, and correlation. Students have the opportunity to learn how to use the R language in the R-studio environment to obtain representative samples from large datasets and use the information in such samples to draw inferences on the larger datasets they were taken from. Course topics include graphical and tabular presentation of data, descriptive summary statistics, manipulation of data, regression, probability distributions, t-tests, and one-way analysis of variance.