Title: 1d) Preparing for Quantitative Research
Course: CJ601-01:Seminar in the Administration of Criminal Justice

As you proceed through this course, you'll be introduced to various methodologies. Often times, with the increasing availability of quantitative data, you may come across a data set that you want to check out. Moreover, as you proceed through your degree, you'll be taking quantitative methods courses and will need to run analyses on quantitative data using some sort of software/program.

Therefore, to prepare for what is to come, in this module, you'll be downloading and installing two free, small, and widely used programs: R and RStudio. How to do this is described in the pages that follow.

Additionally, on the final page, I provide a link to a repository (a data server) of publicly-available quantitative data sets. Feel free to use the Find Data search bar to locate data sets that might be relevant for your research interests/topic (using keywords related to your research).