{"id":60,"date":"2016-07-24T22:39:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T05:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yanliu1\/?page_id=60"},"modified":"2020-09-07T23:00:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T06:00:52","slug":"resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yanliu1\/resources\/","title":{"rendered":"resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>MERM Learning Tools Project<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/learningtools.merm.ecps.educ.ubc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/learningtools.merm.ecps.educ.ubc.ca\/<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">I have organized a Learning Tool Group. Our members are interested in visualizing statistics and developing tools for doing research and learning statistics and psychometrics. We have developed a website, which contains several Shiny R web applications. These applications provide an easy\u00a0 interface for conducting item analysis, EFA, and CFA with both continuous and categorical variables. Feel free to contact me if you are interested in joining our group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Learning R<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Install R<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.r-project.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.r-project.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Install RStudio<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rstudio.com\/products\/rstudio\/download\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.rstudio.com\/products\/rstudio\/download\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Step to step to install R and RStudio<\/strong>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eD07NznguA4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eD07NznguA4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>DataCamp\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.datacamp.com\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.datacamp.com\/home<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>A quick way to update the new version of R<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.r-statistics.com\/2015\/06\/a-step-by-step-screenshots-tutorial-for-upgrading-r-on-windows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.r-statistics.com\/2015\/06\/a-step-by-step-screenshots-tutorial-for-upgrading-r-on-windows\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To update R on Windows:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Install and load <code>installr<\/code>: <code>install.packages(\"installr\")<\/code> and <code>library(installr)<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Call <code>updateR()<\/code> function. This will start the updating process of your R installation by: \u201cfinding the latest R version, downloading it, running the installer, deleting the installation file, copy and updating old packages to the new R installation.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>From within RStudio, go to Help &gt; Check for Updates to install newer version of RStudio (if available, optional).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Inspiring or interesting TED Talks<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"l3 player-pip__title player-pip__top-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/adam_grant_the_surprising_habits_of_original_thinkers#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Adam Grant:<\/span><\/strong> The surprising habits of original thinkers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"l3 player-pip__title player-pip__top-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/judson_brewer_a_simple_way_to_break_a_bad_habit?language=en#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Judson Brewer:<\/span><\/strong> A simple way to break a bad habit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"l3 player-pip__title player-pip__top-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/sheena_iyengar_on_the_art_of_choosing?language=en#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sheena Iyengar: <\/span><\/strong>The art of choosing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"l3 player-pip__title player-pip__top-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/matt_cutts_try_something_new_for_30_days#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Matt Cutts:<\/span><\/strong> Try something new for 30 days<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity\/transcript?language=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ken Robinson:<\/span><\/strong> Do schools kill creativity?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a class=\"l3 talk-speaker__link\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/robert_waldinger\">Robert Waldinger<\/a>:<\/span><\/strong> <a lang=\"en\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/robert_waldinger_what_makes_a_good_life_lessons_from_the_longest_study_on_happiness?language=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness <\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ricardo Semler<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/ricardo_semler_how_to_run_a_company_with_almost_no_rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to run a company with (almost) no rules<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Arthur Benjamin<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/arthur_benjamin_s_formula_for_changing_math_education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Teaching statistics before calculus<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lidia Yuknavitch<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/lidia_yuknavitch_the_beauty_of_being_a_misfit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The beauty of being a misfit<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Latent class analysis<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Examples of LCA from UCLA:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/stats.idre.ucla.edu\/mplus\/dae\/latent-class-analysis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Introductory examples<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/stats.idre.ucla.edu\/mplus\/faq\/how-can-i-estimate-a-multiple-group-latent-class-model-knownclass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">example of known class LCA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>An introductory video:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gVCYfWZZJZo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What is LCA? <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Machine Learning<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Machine learning (ML) can be considered as statistical learning as many methods of ML are based on certain statistical methods. The format or the name may be modified or changed, but ML in nature is some sort of statistical methods. ML should not be viewed as &#8220;black box&#8221;. We should always carefully describe our model, assumptions and limitations. As beginners, you can always start from &#8220;An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R&#8221; (2013) by <cite>Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, and Robert Tibshirani. <\/cite><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MERM Learning Tools Project http:\/\/learningtools.merm.ecps.educ.ubc.ca\/ I have organized a Learning Tool Group. Our members are interested in visualizing statistics and developing tools for doing research and learning statistics and psychometrics. We have developed a website, which contains several Shiny R web applications. 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