Graduate Quantitative Methods Center

Resources on Statistical Software

UCR provides free access to some statistical software programs for current students for their academic use. To see a complete list and download software packages, visit UCR MySoftware Student Software Systems.

• Mplus

  Website: https://www.statmodel.com/

  Online Resources:

  • Mplus User's Guide
  • Mplus Discussion
  • Path Analysis in Mplus
  • Exploratory Factor Analysis in Mplus
  • Confirmatory Factor Analysis in Mplus
  • Growth Models in Mplus (1) (2)
  • Multilevel Models in Mplus
  • Latent Class Analysis in Mplus
     
• R

  Website: http://www.r-project.org

  Intro to R short courses:

  • Video: Introduction to R (20 minutes)
  • An Introduction to R (from R Project)
  • Various R Courses and Tutorials

  Online Resources

  • Introduction to Statistical Computing (UCR course notes)
  • Quick-R with Data Camp
  • Simple Graphics in R
  • Linear Regression with R
  • ANOVA Using R
  • Logistic Regression in R
  • Linear Mixed Effects Models with R
  • Course: Intermediate Topics in R
  • lavaan tutorial (latent variable analysis)
  • ggplot2 (more detailed R graphics) Cheat Sheet
  • List of packages available in R
  • EBImage - Image Processing in R

  Textbooks

  • Learning R by Richard Cotton
  • simpleR -Using R for Introductory Statistics by John Verzani
  • The R Inferno by Patrick Burns
  • R in Action by Robert Kabacoff
  • R for Data Science by Hadley Wickham & Garrett Grolemund
  • Advanced R by Hadley Wickham
  • Text Mining with R by Julia Silge & David Robinson
  • Hands-On Programming with R by Garrett Grolemund
  • Efficient R Programming by Colin Gillespie & Robin Lovelace
  • Linear Models with R by Julian Faraway
  • Extending the Linear Model with R by Julian Faraway
  • bookdown by Yihui Xie (overview of RMarkdown, R's interface with LaTeX)
• SAS

  Website: http://www.sas.com/en_us/home.html/

  Online Resources

  • Free SAS Tutorials
  • Introduction to SAS
  • Intermediate SAS
  • Advanced Topics in SAS
  • SAS/STAT(R) 9.2 User’s Guide
  • Base SAS(R) 9.2 Procedures Guide
  • Descriptive Statistics with SAS
  • Structural Equation Modeling with SAS
  • Linear Mixed Models with SAS
  • Survival Analysis with SAS
  • Neural Networks in SAS
  • Predictive Modeling Using SAS

  Textbooks

  • Regression with SAS
  • Applied Linear Regression with JMP
• SPSS

  Website: http://www.ibm.com/software/analytics/spss/

  Online Course

  • SPSS video tutor

  Online Resources

  • Resources provided by Institute for Digital Research and Education at UCLA
  • Basic Data Management in SPSS
  • Creating Graphs in SPSS
  • Factor Analysis in SPSS
  • Linear Mixed-Effects Modeling in SPSS
  • Generalized Linear Models in SPSS (downloads .doc file)
  • Structural Equation Modeling with AMOS
  • Linear Regression Analysis with SPSS
  • Longitudinal Data Analysis with SPSS
  • Multiple Imputation with SPSS
• Stata

  Website: www.stata.com

  Stata YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/statacorp

  Online Course

  • Video tutorials on using Stata

  Online Resources

  • A list of resources listed in Stata's website
  • Cheat Sheet for Data Analysis with STATA
  • Resources provided by Institute for Digital Research and Education at UCLA
  • Stata Tutorial from Princeton University
  • Data Management in Stata
  • Descriptive Statistics with Stata
  • Stata Graphics
  • Linear Regression in Stata
  • Time Series in Stata
  • Multilevel Mixed Models with Stata
  • Forecasting in Stata