Time :  Thurs. 9:05-9:55

Location : 069 Willard

Teacher :  Naomi Altman        web page

    Syllabus      

    Homework      

    Lectures

Purpose of the Course

Software tools useful for statistical computing will be introduced.  These will include Mathematica and R/Splus.  The focus will be on using these tools for statistical analysis and simulation studies.

 

Software:

Mathematica is available in the student labs under a Penn State site license.

R is freeware.  It can be downloaded from www.r-project.org

 

Evaluation

homework (weekly short problems) 60%

project 40%

Syllabus

Lecture        Topic

    1                Mathematica tutorial + downloading R

    2                R basics

  3-9               More R

    10              Object oriented programming concepts in R   

    11 - 14      Designing  a Simulation Study   

Online Resources for R and Splus

R Project.

Lecture notes on Splus by Joseph Schafer.

Lecture notes on Splus by J. Lee.

Official S-PLUS Documentation at Insightful Corporation.

S-PLUS for Unix at EPFL.

Additional online resources can be found at: http://www.stat.psu.edu/resources/computing/index.html

Integrity

All Penn State and Eberly College of Science policies regarding academic integrity apply to this course. See the integrity web page.

---