Week 1
Soft introduction to R. Ceteris Paribus. Selection bias
Important
The class is in-person. We meet in the PC room 216 in Zeughaus.
Lectures (in class + followup):
๐ฅ Lecture 00 Introduction. Organisation. Setup.
๐ฅ Lecture 01 Ceteris Paribus.
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Watch
Ceteris Paribus: Public vs. Private University - Check takeaways in slides
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Follow-up
hw00-08making an R scripts from example in lecture โ01 Ceteris Paribusโ;
๐ฅ Lecture02 Selection Bias.
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Watch Selection Bias: Will You Make More Going to a Private University?
- Check takeaways in slides
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Watch Randomized Trials: The Ideal Weapon
Application exercises (in class):
Download project ๐ ae01-soft-intro-to-R.zip (same as ๐ ae01-soft-intro-to-R.zip on Ilias);
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Check
AE01-README.Rmd- Instructions. -
ae01a-vaccination.Rmd- assignment to do in class.
Home works
Use instructions in๐ฅ00a R and RStudio introduction to guide your homework progress.
To do before the Week 3
- Check ๐ฅ hw00-01 and watch Installing R and R Studio (video 4:08)
- Check ๐ฅ hw00-02 and watch R and R Studio: introduction and interface (video 1:36)
- Check ๐ฅ hw00-03 and watch Setup working folders (video 3:54)
- Check ๐ฅ hw00-04 and watch Creating an RStudio project (video 4:06)
- Check ๐ฅ hw00-05 and watch Console: running R code in there (video 10:09)
- Check ๐ฅ hw00-06 and watch
.Rscripts: create, modify, run, save (video 4:34) - Check ๐ฅ hw00-07 and watch
.RmdR Markdown: create, modify, save, Knit (video 4:54) - Check ๐ฅ hw00-08 Making an R scripts based on the example from the lecture โ01 Ceteris Paribusโ
Optional. to better learn R. No deadline.
Check ๐ฅ hw00-09 and watch
Coding out loud: introduction to R and R Markdown (about 1 hour).Check ๐ฅ hw00-10 doing ๐
ae01b-un-votes.Rmdabout voting pattern of the countries in the UN General Assembly in ๐ae01under video guidance from Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel.