stat 579

Introduction to Statistical Computing

Fall 2009

Section A Thursday 12:10–2:00. Carver 205

Section B Tuesday 12:10–2:00. Snedecor 3121

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

TA: Ai-Ling Teh, ailing@iastate.edu.
Office hour Monday 2-3, Snedecor 3404.

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 25/27 Numeric and Visual Summaries (movie movie.mov)
Sep 1/3 Working Directories, Data frames & subsets, logical operators ( movie movie.mov) Week 2, due Sep 8/10.
Sep 8/10 Subsets, Types and Objects (movie movie.mov) Week 3, now due Sep 22/24.
Data Manipulation
Sep 15/17 Factors (movie movie.mov) Week 4, due Sep 22/24.
Sep 22/24 Functions & Iterations (movie movie.mov) Week 5, due Sep 29/ Oct 1.
Sep 29/Oct 1 Plyr (movie movie.mov) Week 6, due Oct 6/8.
Spatio-temporal Data
Oct 6/8 Plyr, Maps & Time Series (movie, movie.mov) Week 7, due Oct 13/15.
Advanced Topics
Oct 13/15 Interactive Graphics (movie, movie.mov) Project, due Nov 17/19
Oct 20/22 Midterm - Information and Practice
Oct 27/29 LaTeX and Sweave (movie, movie.mov) Week 10, due Nov 3/5.
Nov 3/5 Random Numbers, Basic Simulations (movie, movie.mov) Week 11, due Nov 10/12.
Nov 10/12 Data from the web (movie, movie.mov) Week 12, now due Dec 1/3.
Nov 17/19 AWK and grep (movie, movie.mov) no homework, happy Thanksgiving!
Nov 24/26 Thanksgiving Week
Dec 1/3 Connecting to Databases, mySQL Week 15, due Dec 8/10.
Dec 8/10 Project Presentations
Dec 15/17 Project Presentations

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