Online Rchon statistics course

Credits: 1 EC
Date: You can do the course online at your own pace.

We are offering an online course on basic statistical analysis for archaeologists using R. Anyone can take the course, but we can only award EC credits to ARCHON members.

The course consists of two parts, that can be accessed here:

Part 1: https://zenodo.org/records/16894650

Part 2: https://zenodo.org/records/16894877

To get the credits, take the tests provided and send the results to secretary@archonline.nl. 

IMPORTANT – before you start:

The current version (v2) has been updated for use with Jupyter Notebooks. It is recommended to use Google Colab to run the notebooks (you need to have a Google account for this); just upload the .ipynb files, and you can start. After finishing the tests, simply download the notebooks and send them in.

Alternatively, you could still do the old (RMarkdown) version (v1) using RStudio. In order to do this, consult the introductory Prezi to guide you through the first steps: https://prezi.com/view/doVKu74Vst9JjIYcGWAe. For the tests, store all the result in an R script and send it in.

About the course:

Part 1 treats the basics of data manipulation in R, and teaches you how to make simple visualisations from a list of numerical data. The purpose of this tutorial is to provide a relatively gentle introduction to R for working with archaeological datasets.

The purpose of part 2 is to extend the application of R from basic data analysis and visualisation to formal statistical testing. In this tutorial, we will treat the following statistical testing methods:

• t-test
• ANOVA