Student Resources

This page has resources for students learning statistics. The resources are mostly tied to our textbook, Introduction to the New Statistics, now in its 2nd edition. If you’re using this book (which we usually refer to as ITNS), hope you like it, and hope you’ll find all the resources you need on this page to help you get the most out of this book. If you are not using this book, no worries; there are still lots of goodies here to explore.

Tools and Simulations to Help You Understand Statistics

We’ve developed a bunch of exciting online simulations and tools that you can explore to help you sharpen your statistical thinking. They’re online here: https://esci.thenewstatistics.com/. Hat tip to Gordon Moore who create these online versions.

Software to Help You Analyze Data

To help you analyze data, Geoff and I developed a new version of esci (Estimation Statistics with Confidence Intervals). You can use esci in R, in jamovi, and (soon) in JASP.

The easiest way to use esci is through jamovi. Detailed instructions are here: esci in jamovi

esci is also available via CRAN (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/esci/index.html) to use in the R programming language. You can get installation instructions and source code from here: https://github.com/rcalinjageman/esci. There is also a detailed reference manual available online here: https://rcalinjageman.github.io/esci/

esci will soon be available for JASP as well… stay tuned!

Datasets From the Book

You can obtain the datasets mentioned in the book directly from esci; they’re built right into both the R and jamovi versions. See below for both a direct download link and detailed instructions:

Direct Download

In case you’re having difficulty installing a version of esci or finding the data that comes with it, here is a zip file that contains all the data files from ITNS 2nd edition in both jamovi and rda formats:

From jamovi

  1. Open jamovi with the esci module installed (you should be able to see the esci icon in the top bar, as pictured.)
  2. Click three lines, top left. Panel opens.
  3. Click Open, Data Library.
  4. See 47 data files, ordered by chapter of first mention in the book.
  5. Click on your choice of data set.

From R

Here is the code to install esci, load esci, and then put a copy of an included data set into your own, new data frame:

# Install esci from CRAN
install.packages("esci")

# Load the esci package
library(esc)

# load a data file into a new data frame:
mydata <- esci::data_altruism_happiness

# get help on a data file:
? esci::data_altruism_happiness

You can view the documentation for all included datasets here: https://rcalinjageman.github.io/esci/reference/index.html#sample-data-sets