Statistics 438

Stat Computing and Graphical Data Analysis

Spring Term 2008

Course Syllabus Office Hours, Grading Policy, etc.

Course Calendar Topics, Holidays, Exam Dates, et cetera.

Homework Folder contains assignments and solutions.

Data Folder contains data used in examples and homeworks.

SAS Folder contains sample code.

Rcode Folder contains sample code.

Reference Materials:

• SAS help on ITC web pages
• SAS.com help, version 9.1
• Example Code from The Little SAS Book web site.
• R Reference Card
• the SAS statistical software local tutorial in html. Focuses on SAS under unix.
• the R statistical software local tutorial.
• Simple R tutorial webpages or Simple R -- local pdf file The "Simple" R package is now called "UsingR" after John Verzani's book: Using R for Introductory Statistics, type the following into R:

  install.packages("UsingR", dep = TRUE)

  or use the "Install" option under the "Packages" menu and pick "UsingR".

Data Sources

• DASL, The Data And Story Library (that's dazzle). A searchable repository of datasets and stories.
• Statlib Datasets
• Journal of Statistics Education An electronic (only) journal.
• Data Zoo coastal data from The Center for Coastal Studies, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego.
• Cornell University Gateway Lots of data from USDA.
• Bureau of Census
• Data Sets from UCLA Stat department.

Author: Jim Robison-Cox
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Last Updated: Tuesday, 15-Jan-2008 15:36:01 MST