Schedule and Information
This website hosts material used by the R Postgraduate research group at Victoria University of Wellington. Specifically, these pages hold notebooks created as part of a book club, reading the following book:
Winter, B. (2019). Statistics for linguists: An introduction using R (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315165547
Format
Weekly meetings going over different sections of the book. Each week is run by a workshop participant who will:
- Create a .qmd notebook file to make note of key points, examples, and anything else from the reading.
- Summarise the main points / takeaways from the reading (including using code).
- Include new examples and/or questions remaining about the reading.
- (Potentially) modify based on discussion
- Feel free to link to or use prior lesson material (follow link in sidebar)
Participants are asked to please read the relevant sections before each workshop - the goal is for us to work through the material collaboratively.
If you cannot attend in person, you can join via Zoom:
If I forget to start the zoom, please email me!
Schedule
| Book section | Topic | Facilitator | Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1 - 2.6 | Tidyverse | Lydia | 24 July 2025 | 15.00-16.00 | vz204 |
| 2.6 - 2.10 | R Markdown | Paul J. | 31 July 2025 | 13.00-14.00 | vz201 |
| 3.1 - 3.3 | The normal distribution | Anne T. | 7 August | 15.00-16.00 | vz204 |
| 3.4 - 3.6 | Mean as model | Mahnaz | 14 August | 15.00-16.00 | vz204 |
| 3.7 - 3.9 | Summary statistics | Uswa | 21 August | 15.00-16.00 | vz204 |
| 4.1 - 4.5 | Intro to linear model | Stephen | 28 August | 15.00-16.00 | vz204 |
| 4.6 - 4.8 | Fitting linear models in R | Qi Yi | 4 September | 13.00-14.00 | vz204 |
| 5.1 - 5.3 | Centering, standardising, and correlations | Akihiro | 11 September | 13.00-14.00 | vz201 |
| 5.4 | Logarithmic transformations | 谁？ | 18 September | 13.00-14.00 | vz204 |
| 5.5 - 5.7 | Example analyses applying 5.1-5.4 (presenter’s choice?) | 谁？ | 25 September | 13.00-14.00 | vz201 |
| 6.1 - 6.2 | Multiple regression | Qi Yi | 2 October | 15.00-16.00 | vz204 |
| 6.3 - 6.5 | Model assumptions, collinearity, and \(R^2\) | 谁？ | 9 October | 15.00-16.00 | vz204 |
| 7.1 - 7.5 | Categorical predictors - treatment coding | 谁？ | 16 October | 15.00-16.00 | vz204 |
| 7.6 - 7.10 | Categorical predictors - other coding schemes | 谁？ | 23 October | 15.00-16.00 | vz204 |
| 8.2 | Categorical by continuous interaction | Anne | 30 October | 15.00-16.00 | vz204 |
| 8.3 | Categorical by categorical interaction | ?? | 6 November | 15.00-16.00 | vz204 |
| ?? | Stephen at LALS retreat | ?? | 13 November | 15.00-16.00 | vz204 |
| 8.4 | Continuous by continuous interaction | ?? | 20 November | 15.00-16.00 | vz204 |
| 8.5 | Nonlinear effects | ?? | 27 November | 15.00-16.00 | vz204 |