• Jan 17 Introduction

• Jan 19 Getting started with R 
  Readings: ALD ch. 1
  Worksheet.
  

• Jan 24 Descriptive statistics: samples and distributions

• Jan 26 Descriptive statistics: central tendencies, standard deviation 
  Readings: SE ch. 2 & 3
  

• Jan 31 
  Graphical data exploration in R: visualizing a single vector, and central tendencies 
  Readings: ALD ch. 2 pp. 20-32 

• Feb 2 Graphical data exploration in R: two or more vectors 
  Readings: ALD ch. 2 pp. 32-37
  Demo: log transform. Demo: plotting. File novice.txt for use with the plotting demo. File expert.txt to be used with the plotting demo.
  

• Feb 7 Graphical data exploration in R: trellis graphics 
  Readings: ALD ch. 2 pp. 37-42 
  

• Feb 9 R commands for distributions, quantiles, random number generation 
  Readings: ALD ch. 3 pp. 44-63

• Feb 14 Transforming variables: centering, scaling, logarithms 
  Due: Homework 1

• Feb 16 
  Statistical tests: single group 
  Readings: ALD ch. 4 pp. 68-77 and SE ch. 4 & 6

• Feb 21 
  Statistical tests: two groups 
  Readings: ALD ch. 4 pp. 77-84 and SE ch. 8 (ch. 7 also useful) 6 R commands for Feb 21

• Feb 23 
  Introduction to linear regression 
  Readings: SE ch. 20  R commands for Feb 23

• Feb 28: Linear regression in R 
  Readings: ALD ch. 4 pp. 84 - 101 
  
  Due: Homework 2
  R commands for Feb 28
  

• Mar 1 Discussion of student project ideas

• Mar 6 Multiple regression 
  Readings: SE ch. 21 R commands for March 6

• Mar 8 
  Multiple regression continued
  Due: Project proposal

Spring break

• Mar 20 Logistic regression 
  Readings: ALD ch 6 pp 195-199, 202-203
  R commands for March 20
  

• Mar 22 Logistic regression continued
   R Commands for March 22

• Mar 27 
  Model comparison  R commands for March 27
• Due: Homework 3 

• Mar 29 
  Collinearity 
  Readings: ALD ch 6 pp 174-188

• Apr 3 Clustering R commands for April 3
  
  Readings: ALD ch 5 pp 138-148 
  Due: Progress Report 

• Apr 5 
  Dimensionality reduction R commands for April 5
  Readings: ALD ch 5 pp 118-126 

• Apr 10 Topics in Regression R commands for April 10
  Due: Homework 4

• Apr 12 Topics in Regression

• Apr 17 Nonparametric tests R code for April 17
  Readings: SE ch. 16 
  

• Apr 19 Nonparametric tests continued Plotting commands for homework 5
  Readings: SE ch. 17 
  Readings: ALD ch 5 pp 118-126

• Apr 24 
  Anova R commands for April 24
  Readings: ALD ch. 4 pp. 101-108 and SE ch. 11 & 12 
  Due: Homework 5

• Apr 26 
  Paired samples Anova R code for April 26
  Readings: SE ch. 13

• May 1 Project presentations

• May 3 Project presentations

Final Report

Due May 8th