Mathematics and Statistics Offers Special Topics Class in R
Are you interested in learning about the free, open source R computer language and environment for statistical computing and graphics?
STAT 480: Special Topics in Statistics — R
Three hours lecture/lab (3)
Instructor: Dr. Yong Xu, Assistant Professor of Statistics
Time: Mondays 5—7:30 p.m.
Location: Walker 222
Preprequisite: Stat 301 or Stat 200 or equivalent
General Course Content:
Installation of R
Overview of Help Documentation and CSV Files
Arithmetic and Solving Equations
Creation of Variables
Data Input and Output
Data Structures, such as Lists, Factors, Matrices, and Data Frames
Probability Computations, Probability Distributions and Random Variables
Descriptive Statistics, Confidence Intervals and Classical Statistic Tests
Graphical Displays, such as Pie Charts, Bar Charts, Histograms, Stem-and-Leaf Diagrams and Scatter Plots
Linear and Nonlinear Modeling
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
For more information contact: Dr. Jill Stewart at
mjstewart@radford.edu