Pre-req: STAT 212 and STAT 216 (or equivalent) or instructor permissionCo-listed with STAT 276W, STAT 476
This course offers an introduction to statistical computing in the R environment with the goal of exploratory analyses and effective communication using "tidyverse". With a main goal of communicating results to various audiences, this course will require writing via communicating results in a clear and effective manner based on the intended audience. This includes cleaning and preparing data for analysis, exploratory data analyses using simple graphics and tables, acknowledging and working with missing data, advanced graphics including map graphics to communicate results, statistical hypothesis generation & confirmation, introduction to the LaTeX typesetting language, advanced R Markdown formatting techniques (HTML, PDF, Word), figure and table creation with proper adaptive labels and captions, and bibliography with adaptive citations.
Basic skills with a test editor (such as Notepad) and Microsoft Excel are assumed. Students are expected to have basic skills in R and RStudio as covered in STAT 212. This course will be held in a computer lab with R and RStudio installed but students will need computer access outside of class.