Workshop
WHEN
November 1, 2023
2-3 PM
WHERE
Zoom Webinar
WHO
NYUAD Library
Open to the Public
This is an introductory course on the open-source, powerful, and highly extensible free statistical software R. This course is designed to give the course’s participants a brief introduction and understanding of the statistical software R (R Project) and the RStudio (RStudio Interface). The course assumes no previous knowledge of programming in R or other software. In addition, no statistical knowledge is required. This course is intended for students/researchers who want to explore data using R and RStudio. Students/researchers who enroll in the course will also receive a briefing on installing and using R and the popular editor RStudio.
Email nyuad.statslab@nyu.edu for more details.
The 5-module course will be held over five (5) consecutive Wednesdays. Module 5 (Revision) is in-person at NYUAD and registration is limited to the NYU community.
| Date | Title | Topics Covered |
|---|---|---|
| November 1, 2023 | Module I | Introduction to R Introduction to R and RStudio Working with RStudio Basic Arithmetic Operators Standard Functions and Some Statistical Functions Logical Operators and Links Basic R Syntax |
| November 15, 2023 | Module 2 | Basic Data Manipulation Standard Introduction to Data Types and Data Structures Vectors and Matrices Lists and Data Frames Subsetting and Slicing Data Reading and Writing Data Available Datasets R |
| November 22, 2023 | Module 3 |
Data Visualization Creating Scatter Plots, Bar Plots, and Line Plots, Coplots, Normal qq-plot, and more Customizing Plots (Colors, Labels, Themes) |
| November 29, 2023 | Module 4 | Basics of Statistical Analysis Summary Statistics Basic Statistical Tests (T-test, One-way ANOVA) Correlation and Regression |
| December 6, 2023 | Module 5 | Revision |
Research Scientist / Biostatistician
Please note, registration will be for all five days.
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