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  LISA Statistics Short Course: Introduction to R, Part I  
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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.

Fall 2012 Schedule:
September 11: Designing Experiments and Collecting Useful Data;
September 17 & 18: Using JMP to design experiments and analyze the results;
September 25: Designing Surveys;
October 2: Analyzing Surveys;
October 8: Introduction to R, Part I;
October 9: Introduction to R, Part II;
October 15 & 16: How to make plots to tell the story of your data;
*These courses will be held in the GLC, all other courses are in 3060 Torgersen Hall.


Monday, October 8;
Instructor: Qing Li;
Title: Introduction to R, Part I;
Course Information:
R is a free computing and graphical software/environment for statistical analysis. Part I of this short course consists of 2 sections:

>Section 1 introduces R programming basics, including data objects, loops, and importing/exporting datasets. These concepts will be reinforced using examples of data manipulation and data cleaning.

>Section 2 discusses the R graphics environment and the creation of basic statistical plots as well as paper/presentation quality graphics.

R can be downloaded here: http://www.r-project.org/
RStudio can be downloaded here: http://rstudio.org/download/desktop


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Location: 3060 Torgersen Hall
Price: Free
Contact: Tonya Pruitt
E-Mail: lisa@vt.edu
540-231-8354
   
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