Course Code:
bspkrstud
Duration:
14 hours
Prerequisites:
There are no specific requirements needed to attend this course.
Course Outline:
- Introduction to R and R Studio
- Connecting to data using R and R Studio (also, exporting data from R to various output formats)
- R variables (scalars, vectors, matrices and data.frames)
- Sorting, ordering, sampling &sub-setting variables in R
- R graphics (scatter plots, line charts, bar charts, box plots, histograms)
- Descriptive statistics in R
- Regression analysis in R (OLS and binary)
- Control structures in R (loops & conditional execution)
- Writing scripts and functions in R
- Introduction to data mining using R (KMeans clustering;decision trees classification)
Hands-on data manipulation/visualization/analysis tasks/labs for all sections