Statistics

Prereqs: None. Recommended for 1st and 2nd year students.

This 6 week class will meet every Friday from 9:30am-10:30am in 1107 (SICL) SAS Hall. It will be an introduction to R programming and an introduction to the computing resources available in the department. 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, Data Types, R Basics
• Week 3: Vectors, c() Function, Matricies, Lists, Data Frames
• Week 4: Plotting, LAB 1
• Week 5: Control Statements, Functions, Reading data from files
• Week 6: LAB 2