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LISA Statistics Short Course: Graphics in R
(Academic)
LISA SHORT COURSES IN STATISTICS
LISA (Virginia Tech's Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis) is providing a series of evening short courses to help graduate students use statistics in their research. The focus of these two-hour courses is on teaching practical statistical techniques for analyzing or collecting data. See www.lisa.stat.vt.edu/?q=short_courses for instructions on how to REGISTER and to learn more.
Spring 2014 Schedule:
Tuesday & Thursday, February 11 & 13: Basics of R;*
Tuesday & Thursday, February 18 & 20: Statistical Analysis in R;*
Tuesday & Thursday, February 25 & 27: Graphics in R;*
Tuesday & Wednesday, March 4 & 5: Introduction to JMP;*
Tuesday, March 18: Advanced Topics in R: parallel processing, structural equation modeling, and the bootstrap;
Tuesday, April 1: Survey Design and Analysis;
Tuesday, April 10: Accelerating statistical calculations using inexpensive graphics cards;
Tuesday, April 15: Multiple Imputation and Missing Data;
*Two sessions of the same course to accommodate more attendees.
Tuesday, February 25;
Instructor: Xinran Hu;
Title: Graphics in R;
Course Information:
The ability to create professional grade graphics is of key importance for scientific communication. The R programming package offers a powerful, flexible, and free platform which can be used to produce publication-quality graphics. This short course will introduce R techniques to produce several statistical graphs including histograms, bar plots, box plots, scatter plots and 3D contour plots among others. Syntax to control colors, plotting characters, axes, legends, and labels will be covered, and users will learn to write high resolution graphics to the file type of their choice. Two data sets will be used to demonstrate R's graphical capabilities: The National Longitudinal Mortality data set and a data set about nutrition in breakfast cereals from DASL. The course format includes lecture and computer laboratory components. The lecture component will cover historical backgrounds, pros and cons of various graphics and approaches, and the computer portion will allow attendees to write, modify, and execute R codes to produce graphics based on these data.
This session is the third entry in a three course series which assumes no previous coding experience in R or any other language. The intended audience for this course includes researchers who want to gain basic exposure to R with the ultimate goal of incorporating R into their research programs.
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