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Introduction to R Short Course
January 23, 2015 @ 9:00 am - 5:30 pm
Description:
This course provides an introduction to the fundamentals of the R language.
In this course, you will learn how to program in R and how to effectively use R to do data analysis. The course covers introduction to data/object types in R, reading data into R, creating data graphics, accessing and installing R packages, writing R functions, fitting statistical models including regression models and performing statical tests as t-test, and ANOVA. Practical examples will be provided during the course.
Date: January 23, 2015
Time: 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. with lunch provided
Location: Donald Bren Hall, Room 4011
Instructors: Sepehr Akhavan and Homer Strong from the Department of Statistics, UC Irvine.
Pre-requisites: 1) familiarity with basic statistical concepts, and 2) basic programming knowledge. For the tutorial, bring a laptop with R 3.1.2 and R Studio downloaded and installed.
Application deadline is January 1, 2015.