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LISA Short Course: Introduction to R
(Academic)
LISA SHORT COURSES IN STATISTICS
LISA (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. Refreshments will be provided at the end of each short course!
Remaining Spring 2011 Schedule:
February 28 & March 1: Introduction to R*;
March 14 & 15: Bayesian Methods for Regression in R*;
*Course to be held in 3080 Torgersen Hall. Other courses will be in Fralin Auditorium
Tuesday, February 28;
Instructor: Sai Wang;
Title: Introduction to R;
Course Information:R is a free computing and graphical software/environment for statistical analysis. This short course consists of 3 sections:
Section 1 provides introduction to R programming basics, such as data objects in R, loops, import/export datasets, along with an example of data manipulation/cleaning.
Section 2 discusses the R graphing environment and how to create some basic statistical plots.
Section 3 introduces how to perform basic statistical analysis in R, such as t-test, ANOVA and linear regression.
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