Tuesday's Class

I really enjoyed class this Tuesday. Rebecca did a really great job of putting it all together. It was very useful to define a study, hypothesis, and design according to whether the dependent and independent variables were continuous or categorical. The exercise actually made us think about relevant biological variables and how we should test them. I learned a lot about when to use different tests. Ultimately, this will be very helpful for my independent project/honors thesis. Now if we could just do this with a Thursday lab, I feel like I would get so much out of R. By the way, based on the biostats test, I found R to be useful in running analyses but inputting data was a nightmare. Anyone have any good tips or is it just hard to do? It is just not as friendly as a spreadsheet like Excel.