stat 579

Introduction to Statistical Computing

Fall 2010

Section A (Statistics Graduates) Thursday 12:30–2:00. Snedecor 3121

Section B (outside Statistics) Tuesday 12:30–2:00. Snedecor 3121

Heike Hofmann, hofmann@iastate.edu.
Office hours by arrangement. Snedecor 2413

TA: Yihui Xie, xie@iastate.edu.
Office hour: Friday 9:30 - 10:30 am.

Syllabus

Course syllabus describing objectives, software used, topics and assessment.

Lectures and timetable

Date Lecture and Resources Homework
R Basics & Setting up the Working Environment
Aug 24/26 Numeric and Visual Summaries Week 1, now due Sep 7/9
Aug 31/Sep 2 Graphical Summaries, Working Directories, Data frames & subsets, logical operators Week 1, due Sep 7/9
Sep 7/9 Subsets, Types and Objects Week 3, due Sep 14/16
Data Manipulation
Sep 14/16 Factors Week 4, due Sep 21/23
Sep 21/23 Factors & Plyr Week 5
Sep 28/30 Functions no homework this week, but make sure to practice!
Oct 5/7 Midterm - Information and Practice Week 7, due Oct 12/14
Advanced Topics
Oct 12/14 Maps & Time Series Week 8, due Oct 19/21
Oct 19/21 Interactive Graphics Week 9, due Oct 26/28
Oct 26/28 LaTeX and Sweave Homework Week 10, due Nov 2/4; Final Project first stage due Nov 2/4
Nov 2/4 Random Numbers, Basic Simulations Week 11, due Nov 9/11
Nov 9/11 Working with Text Data Week 12
Nov 16/18 Connecting to Databases, mySQL no homework, happy Thanksgiving!
Nov 23/25 Thanksgiving Week
Nov 30/Dec 2 2nd midterm exam - Sample Exam Abstract Submission
Dec 7 Project Presentations Give feedback to the presentations
Dec 9 Project Presentations Give feedback to the presentations
Dec 14, 2:15 - 4:15 Project Presentations Give feedback to the presentations

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