Weekly preparation
Before every class meeting (both lectures and practicals) you need to do the assigned homework (delineated in the GitBook chapter for that week). This course follows a flipped classroom procedure, so you must complete the weekly homework to meaningfully participate in, and benefit from, the class meetings.
Background knowledge
We assume you have basic knowledge about multivariate statistics before entering this course. You do not need any prior experience working with R. If you wish to refresh your knowledge, we recommend the chapters on ANOVA, multiple regression, and exploratory factor analysis from Field’s Discovering Statistics using R.
If you cannot access the Field book, many other introductory statistics textbooks cover these topics equally well. So, use whatever you have lying around from past statistics courses. You could also try one of the following open-access options: