This might be a view you don't want to hear, but don't teach statistics
superficially. Either teach it as a profession in its own right, deeply,
warts and all, or teach the need to consult a statistician. If your
students can't learn a tool such as R, it's a pretty good indication
that they can't learn statistics.
David
On 24/06/2015 22:02, Margaret MacDougall wrote:
> Dear Colleagues
>
> I would be interested to hear from those of you who have had the
> opportunity to explore free of charge graphics packages which have
> similar functionality for constructing graphs to that of the commercial
> package SPSS. I would be grateful for any feedback on how useful such
> packages might prove for teaching purposes in higher education
> where learners are specifically non-specialist learners in Statistics.
> These learners will not have the luxury of time in their courses to
> familiarize themselves with R as a preliminary learning task.
>
> Very many thanks
>
> Best wishes
>
> Margaret
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