Statistics

Prereqs: A solid understanding of R and/or the Introduction to R course. 3rd year students or higher recommended.

This 10 week class will meet every Friday from 10:30am-11:30am in 1107 (SICL) SAS Hall. It will be an introduction to C programming for the purposes of improving performance in R. Each class will build on the previous ones, so you should plan to attend all of the classes. Some classes will be lectures, and some will be labs to reinforce concepts.

• Week 1 (January 11th): Intro and Stat Department Resources
• Week 2: Interpreted vs Compiled Code and Data Types
• Week 3: C program structure, C/C++ output, Pointers
• Week 4: LAB 1
• Week 5: Calling C from R, C loops, if statement
• Week 6: Passing R data to C, File I/O
• Week 7: Structs, string functions, and organizing data
• Week 8: Strings, File I/O
• Week 9: R function in C
• Week 10: BLAS and Matrix Multiplication