Stat 408

Statistical Computing and Graphics, Spring 2012

CRN 33503

Dr. Jim Robison-Cox jimrc
Meeting MWF at 12 noon in Wilson 1-144.
Office hours: M-W-F 2pm and other times by appointment

Lectures

Last 5 weeks: SAS intro

SAS Starter Kit (UCLA)

First 5 weeks: R intro

Exam 1: February 13, 2012

Second 5 weeks: more R

Exam 2: March 26, 2012
Last Updated:
Course syllabus

Folders

Datasets
Homeworks
Notes folder.
R code folder.
SAS code folder.

Assignments

Homework 1 Due Jan 13
Homework 2 Due Jan 20
Homework 3 Due Jan 25
Homework 4 Due Feb 1
Homework 5 Due Feb 8

Homework 6 Due Feb 22
Homework 7 Due Feb 29
Homework 8 Due Mar 7
Homework 9 Due Mar 21

Homework 10 Due Apr 4
Homework 11 Due Apr 11
Homework 12 Due Apr 18
Homework 13 Due Apr 25

Resources

Intro to R by Longhow Lam
Setting up R
R quick reference guide
Quick R Site good info for beginners
R style guide from Google
R Wiki
SAS Style Guide
How to run SAS
SAS 9.3 Help, SAS 9.2 Help
Visualizing.org (Nice Plots)
visualizing TED talk by D. McCandless
Open Data TED talk by Tim Berners-Lee
Naomi Robbins on Visualizing Data
Vincent Granville, founder of AnalyticBridge on statisticians and data mining.