TWO-DAY TUTORIAL IN "R" STATISTICAL COMPUTING
| Date: | Mon 2/27/2006 - Tue 2/28/2006 |
| Location: | Lister Hill Library Electronic Classroom G-40 1700 University Blvd Birmingham AL 35294-0022 |
| Speaker: | Thomas Lumley PhD Associate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Washington |
| Registration Fee: | $250.00 |
| Materials: | Presentation S4 Objects Slides Programming Exercises Exercises |
Schedule of Events:
The course videos are accessible only to UAB personnel.
| DATE | TIME | TOPIC | Resource(s) |
| Feb. 27, 2006 | 9-10:30 | Introduction. Reading data, subsets, summaries |  |
| 10:30-10:50 | Break | ||
| 10:50-12:30 | Graphics: basic graphics, color. Example: Ishihara plates | | |
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch | ||
| 2:00-3:30 | Graphics: large data sets, conditioning plots, Trellis | | |
| 3:30-3:50 | Break | ||
| 3:50-5:00 | Data manipulation and simple programming, the functional programming model. Example: the bootstrap | | |
| Feb. 28, 2006 | 8:30-10:00 | More programming: debugging, profiling, objects and methods. Example: ROC curves. | |
| 10:00-10:20 | Break | ||
| 10:20-12:00 | Regression modeling in R. | | |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch | ||
| 1:30-3:00 | Writing packages; writing (very) simple GUIs. | | |
| 3:00-3:20 | Break | ||
| 3:20-4:45 | Requests (perhaps the S4 object system, or calling C code, or computing on the language) | |
| Sponsors: | Section on Statistical Genetics Department of Biostatistics |
| Contact Information: | Richard Sarver Department of Biostatistics Ryals Public Health Bldg 317 1665 University Blvd University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, AL 35294-0022 Phone: (205) 975-9169 Email: rsarver@uab.edu |
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