Autore della sezione: Danielle J. Navarro and David R. Foxcroft

Summary

Every book that tries to teach a new statistical software program to novices has to cover roughly the same topics, and in roughly the same order. Ours is no exception, and so in the grand tradition of doing it just the same way everyone else did it, this chapter covered the following topics:

• Installating and starting jamovi: We downloaded and installed jamovi, started it up, and quit it. When quitting jamovi, we looked at good practice in terms of saving your data set and analyses.

• Analyses: We very briefly oriented to the part of jamovi where analyses are done and results appear, how to remove analyses, and how to copy-and-paste the results output from jamovi to. e.g., a word processor. When then introduced add-on modules that are provided by the jamovi community, and how they can extend jamovi capabilities. However, a more in depth view on analyses was deferred until later chapters in the book.

• The spreadsheet: We spent more time looking at the spreadsheet of jamovi. We considered different variable types, and saw that sometimes we need to coerce data from one type to another. When then discussed how to compute new variables.

• Loading data in jamovi: Finally, we also saw how to load data files in jamovi. Then we figured out how to open more unusal data files, from different file types.

We still haven’t arrived at anything that resembles data analysis. Maybe the next chapter will get us a bit closer!