STAT 486/586 Introduction to Statistical Computing
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Textbook
The required textbook for this course is
Additional free textbooks
- R Programming for Data Science
- Hands on Programming with R
- OpenIntro Statistics - background material
Software
We will be using the Statistical Software R. I will be using RStudio as the interface to R. Although both will be available on lab computers, I suggest you install R and RStudio on your own laptop or desktop (or both).
Install links:
Course Description
Modern statistical computing. Topics may include: data management; spread sheets; verifying data accuracy; transferring data between software packages; data and graphical analysis with statistical software packages; algorithmic programming concepts and applications; simulation studies and resampling methods; software reliability; statistical modeling and machine learning.
Course Objectives
Prerequisite
The prerequisite for the course is previous enrollment in one of the following statistics (STAT) courses: 301, 326, 401, or 587.
Schedule
Week|Topic|Reading
1|Review|Open Intro (entire book) 2|Visualization|R4DS Ch1-3
Q&A
Please use the Canvas discussion forum.
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