Throughout the computer lab question sheets, you will see emojis and/or collapsible sections like this one. Each emoji has a particular meaning and will sometimes be associated with additional instructions:
Prompts for you
💬 Write your answer in the chat.
Modes at different times during the lab
🏡 Main room. All together in the main room – your computer lab demonstrator will be presenting information or facilitating class discussion
💡 Breakout rooms. Person with birthday closest to (your computer lab demonstrator will pick a random date) shares their screen or whiteboard. Here you will discuss a question together and bring your group’s answer back to the main room.
💻 Focus mode. You will still be in the main room, but working independently. All students will be sharing screen during this time so that your computer lab demonstrator (but not other students) can see your screen.
Throughout the computer lab question sheets, you will see emojis and/or collapsible sections like this one. You can ignore the emojis and collapsible sections, as they contain information relevant to students who are studying online.
In our first Computer Lab, we will learn how to get started with jamovi (The jamovi project 2022).
From time to time, we will be referring to the free book learning statistics with jamovi (Navarro and Foxcroft 2022).
If you have time at the end of today’s lab, you may like to work on Quiz 1.
One question you may be have is, Why jamovi? There are many statistical software programs available, each of which have their pros and cons. Some of jamovi’s advantages include:
With that, let’s get started.
💻 If you have not already installed jamovi on your own computer, the video below will help you get started. If you are working in a computer lab on campus, the computer should already have jamovi installed - just go to the start menu and open it up.
Some useful links:
💻 Once you open jamovi, you will see the user-friendly jamovi interface. To become familiar with the interface and its features, watch the following video:
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On the LMS, you will find a file called survey.csv, which contains the responses of 237 Statistics students to a set of questions (Venables and Ripley 1999). This data set is from a package called MASS, which is part of the freely available software package R (R Core Team 2021).
Download the file called survey.csv from the LMS, and save it in a relevant location on your computer.
Import the survey.csv file in jamovi. The video below demonstrates how to import a data file.
To learn more about importing data into jamovi, including what to check for when importing data, some useful references are Loading data in jamovi and Importing unusual data files (Navarro and Foxcroft 2022).
💻 In jamovi, carry out the following using the survey data set (the video below will demonstrate how to do this).
Height variableHeight variable💻 In jamovi, it is simple to round results to a desired number of decimal places. After watching the video below, round the results shown in your descriptives statistics table to three decimal places.
💻 Working with the variable in the survey data set called A, carry out the following steps:
IDWhen adding columns to a data set in jamovi, it is possible to add computed variables. If you would like to learn more about this, a good reference is here (Navarro and Foxcroft 2022).
These notes have been prepared by Amanda Shaker. The copyright for the material in these notes resides with the authors named above, with the Department of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and with La Trobe University. Copyright in this work is vested in La Trobe University including all La Trobe University branding and naming. Unless otherwise stated, material within this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Non Derivatives License BY-NC-ND.