[Courses] [Techtalk] Any interest in a Statistics/R course/study group?

[Mani A]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Anne-Laure
Buisson<alaure.buisson at gmail.com> wrote:
> it seems i'm not able to send an email on the list, but as you propose to
> coordonate it, here are my possible contribution.
> Bis,
> Anne Laure
> Helllo
> Youpi, for once, I can do it :-)
> I'm a belgiam statistician, I really LOVE R, I use it, I'm discovering it
> still, and I would like to help :-) (but as you can see, my english is not
> so good) And, by the way, I don't have time before some weeks ....
> I can at list show the begining, and how you can find information about it.
> Let me know what I can do !

First create your moodle account at http://courses.linuxchix.org/,
join the courses mailing list

> Anne Laure
>
>>A  set of topics can be:
>
>>1. Getting Started
>>2. Data Frames; Basic Statistics
>>3. Lists, Vectors, Matrices, Arrays
>>4. Graphs and Data Visualisation
>>5. Linear Models
>>6. Making R packages
>>7. Using R with code in other languages
>>8. Guide to specialised packages
>>9. Hypothesis Testing: Decision Making
>
>
> Good, we could also add :
> in the 3 : subseting data, and loops in R... (This was part of what i miss
> in my R class at the university, and that i had to discover by myself, hard
> way)

That was implicit.

> In the 4 : Exporting graphics and pictures in different format


> Maybe before the 5 : Basic statistical test (Kolmogorov Smirnov, Student,
> Anova.. )
One cannot expect everybody to know enough statistics, so tests should
be distributed across 2, 5, 9. chi-square

> A new one : Data mining with R : Neural network, cluster analysis, PCA... (R
> have powerful tools, but not always the capacity to Handle the big
> database.. ), and Graphs analysis.
> and R also have easy way of handeling times series...

Everybody will not have the background for these topics. The best
thing would be something like 8. Knowing about available packages is
not really easy and getting to know about the capability of particular
packages is another thing.  But a little can always be introduced.
ts, ast, arima ...ok

using databases with R can be a topic



OK, ...the first task should be to do the prelim moodle stuff and  fix
a few reference texts and

Schedule: we will decide soon...

Best

A. Mani



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