Load Data

We are going to use cars data included in R by default. We will load and print the cars data.

# 1. Loading
data(cars) 

# 2. Print
head(cars)

Check Data Set

Check the number of rows and columns.

# Display the internal structure of an R object.
str(cars)

# Check the dimension of an object
dim(cars)

# Check the variables
?cars

Visualize your data using a scatter plot

Find the data columns, named speed (numeric Speed (mph)) and dist (numeric Stopping distance (ft)) from the cars data set. Create a scatter plot to visualze the relationship between the two variables.

#par(mar=c(1,1,1,1)) # change figure margins if you encounter errors

# Create a simple scatter plot (Method 1)
plot(cars$dist ~ cars$speed) 

# Create a simple scatter plot (Method 2)
plot(dist ~ speed, data = cars) 

Calcuate correlation

Calcuate correlation among two variables speed and dist using the cor function. Conduct statistical testing for the association using cor.test function. The default is Pearson’s correlation, but you can use Spearman’s (rho) rank correlation method="spearman" or Kendall’s tau method="kendall" for nonparametic tests.

# Compute correlation
cor(cars$speed, cars$dist)

# Statistical testing for associatin between the two variables
cor.test(cars$dist, cars$speed)

# Check the `cor.test` function
?cor.test 

# Correlations for the entire data set
cor(cars)

Load Data

We are going to use cars data included in R by default. We will load and print the cars data.

# 1. Loading
data(cars) 

# 2. Print
head(cars)

Check Data Set

Check the number of rows and columns.

# Display the internal structure of an R object.
str(cars)

# Check the dimension of an object
dim(cars)

# Check the variables
?cars

Visualize your data using a scatter plot

Find the data columns, named speed (numeric Speed (mph)) and dist (numeric Stopping distance (ft)) from the cars data set. Create a scatter plot to visualze linear relationship between the two variables.

#par(mar=c(1,1,1,1)) # change figure margins if you encounter errors

# Create a scatter plot
scatter.smooth(cars$dist ~ cars$speed) 

# Add axes and text
scatter.smooth(cars$dist ~ cars$speed,
main="Dist ~ Speed",
xlab="Speed (mph)",
ylab="Stopping distance (ft)",
col="orange")               

Visualize your data using a boxplot and check for outliers

Use the boxplot funciton to create a boxplot for each variable: speed (numeric Speed (mph)) and dist (numeric Stopping distance (ft)) from the cars data set. See if there is any outlier based on the 1.5 x interquartile-range (1.5 * IQR) rule.

# box plot for 'speed'
boxplot(cars$speed,  main="Speed")

# box plot for 'speed'
boxplot(cars$dist,  main="Distance")

# Visualize two figures side by side and add notes (run the following 3 rows at the same time)
par(mfrow=c(1, 2)) # divide graph area in 2 columns
boxplot(cars$speed, main="Speed", sub = paste("Outlier rows: ", boxplot.stats(cars$speed)$out))  
boxplot(cars$dist, main="Distance", sub=paste("Outlier rows: ", boxplot.stats(cars$dist)$out))  

Check the normality of the response variable using a histogram

Create a histogram with the function hist(). You can change the number of bins using the breaks= argument.

# simple histogram
hist(cars$dist)

# histogram with different number of bins
hist(cars$dist, breaks = 20)

# histogram with different number of bins and change color
hist(cars$dist, breaks = 20, col = "gray")

Chek the normality of the response variable using a density plot

Create a density plot with the function density().

# returns density data
density(cars$dist)

# plot the results (Method 1)
plot(density(cars$dist))

# plot the results (Method 2)
d <- density(cars$dist)
plot(d)

Chek the normality of the response variable using a QQ plot

Create a density plot with the function qqnorm(). Quantile-Quantile plot (QQ-plot) shows the correlation between a given sample and the normal distribution.

# create a normal QQ plot
qqnorm(cars$dist)

# create a normal QQ plot and add a reference line (Run the two lines at the same time)
qqnorm(cars$dist)
qqline(cars$dist) 

Fit a simple linear regression model

Fit a linear model with the function lm(). Regress the outcome variable dist on the exploratory variable speed

# fit the regression model (Method 1)
lm(cars$dist ~ cars$speed)

# fit the regression model (Method 2)
lm(dist ~ speed, data = cars)

Produce a summary of the model fitting

Produce a summary of the results of the model fitting using summary funciton.

# check the summary
LinearModel <- lm(dist ~ speed, data = cars)
summary(LinearModel)

Checking for statistical significance

Check coefficients, F-statistic, and R-squared

LMSummary <- summary(LinearModel)

# model coefficients
LMSummary$coefficients

# model F-statistic
LMSummary$fstatistic

Load Data

We are going to use mtcars data included in R by default. We will load and print the mtcars data.

# 1. Loading
data(mtcars) 

# 2. Print
head(mtcars)

Fit a multiple linear regression model

Fit a linear model with the function lm(). Regress the outcome variable mpg(Miles/(US) gallon) on the exploratory variables cyl (Number of cylinders), wt (Weight (1000 lbs)), and vs Engine (0 = V-shaped, 1 = straight).

# fit the regression model
lm(mpg ~ cyl + wt + vs, data = mtcars)
?mtcars

Produce a summary of the model fitting

Produce a summary of the results of the model fitting using summary funciton.

# check the summary
MulipleModel <- lm(mpg ~ cyl + wt + vs, data = mtcars)
summary(MulipleModel)

Read Data

We will use build-in data set Prestige contained in the R package car. We will load and print the survey data.

# 1. Load the required package.
#install.packages("car") # if you don't have the "car" package, make sure to install it. 
library(car)

# 2. Load the data
data(Prestige) 

# 2. Print
head(Prestige)

Check Data

Check the number of rows and columns.

# Display the internal structure of an R object.
str(Prestige)

# Check the dimension of an object
dim(Prestige)

Use the help function to learn about variables

If you want to learn more about the t.test function.

# A question mark is a shorcut for the "help" function.
?Prestige

Check three data frame columns (income, education)

First, find the data column, named income, of the survey data set.

# Summary of the "income" column
summary(Prestige$income)

Next, find another data column, named education in the survey data set.

# Summary of the "group" column
summary(Prestige$education)

Lastly, find the data column, named prestige, of the survey data set.

# Summary of the "prestige" column
summary(Prestige$prestige)

Visualize your variable and check for outliers

Use the boxplot funciton to create a boxplot for each variable: income (Average income of incumbents, dollars, in 1971), education (Average education of occupational incumbents, years, in 1971), prestige (Pineo-Porter prestige score for occupation, from a social survey conducted in the mid-1960s) from the cars data set. See if there is any outlier based on the 1.5 x interquartile-range (1.5 * IQR) rule.

?Prestige
# box plot for 'income'
boxplot(Prestige$income, main="Income")
boxplot(Prestige$income, main="Income", sub = paste("Outlier rows: ", boxplot.stats(Prestige$income)$out))  

# Check the outliers for 'income'
boxplot.stats(Prestige$income)$out

# box plot for 'education'
boxplot(Prestige$education, main="Education")

# Check the outliers for 'education'
boxplot(Prestige$education, main="Education", sub = paste("Outlier rows: ", boxplot.stats(Prestige$education)$out))  

# box plot for 'prestige'
boxplot(Prestige$prestige, main="Prestige")

# Check the outliers for 'prestige'
boxplot(Prestige$prestige, main="Prestige", sub = paste("Outlier rows: ", boxplot.stats(Prestige$prestige)$out))

Check the normality of a potenital response variable using a histogram

Create a histogram with the function hist(). You can change the number of bins using the breaks= argument.

# histogram with different number of bins and change color
hist(Prestige$income, breaks = 5, col = "gray")

Check the normality of a potenital response variable using a density plot

Create a density plot with the function density().

# plot the results
d2 <- density(Prestige$income)
plot(d2)

Check the normality of a potenital response variable using a QQ plot

Create a density plot with the function qqnorm(). Quantile-Quantile plot (QQ-plot) shows the correlation between a given sample and the normal distribution.

# create a normal QQ plot and add a reference line (Run the two lines at the same time)
qqnorm(Prestige$income)
qqline(Prestige$income) 

Check the normality of the response variable using a histogram

Create a histogram with the function hist(). You can change the number of bins using the breaks= argument.

# histogram with different number of bins and change color
hist(Prestige$prestige, breaks = 10, col = "gray")

Chek the normality of the response variable using a density plot

Create a density plot with the function density().

# plot the results
d2 <- density(Prestige$prestige)
plot(d2)

Check the normality of the response variable using a QQ plot

Create a density plot with the function qqnorm(). Quantile-Quantile plot (QQ-plot) shows the correlation between a given sample and the normal distribution.

# create a normal QQ plot and add a reference line (Run the two lines at the same time)
qqnorm(Prestige$prestige)
qqline(Prestige$prestige) 

Fit a simple linear regression model

Fit a linear model with the function lm(). Regress the outcome variable prestige on the exploratory variable education

# fit the regression model
lm(prestige ~ education, data = Prestige)

Produce a summary of the model fitting

Produce a summary of the results of the model fitting using summary funciton.

# check the summary
LinearModel2 <- lm(prestige ~ education, data = Prestige)
summary(LinearModel2)