Implications of R Syntax in Intro Stats

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Semester-long, head-to-head comparison measures concrete differences: the formula section uses mosaic + ggformula + base t.test while the tidyverse section uses tidyverse summarize + ggplot2 + infer::t_test, exposing students to 37 functions vs 50 functions. Inference and R Markdown work well in both; formula syntax makes missing-data handling awkward, tidy data makes interpreting two-way categorical relationships and chi-square style tests harder, and tidyverse students spend noticeably more time computing on RStudio Cloud.

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