BIOSTAT 213: Introduction to Computing in the R Software Environment (Fall 2019)

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    Introduction to Computing in the R Software Environment BIOSTAT 213 Fall 2019 (1 units). Course Director: Yea-Hung Chen, PhD. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

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  Module 1: fundamentals

  • introduction to R and RStudio
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  • functions
  • object assignment
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  • vectors
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  Module 2: vectors and data frames
  

  • numeric objects, continued
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  Module 3: univariate analysis
  

  • summarizing continuous data
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  Module 4: data manipulation
  

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  Module 5: advanced data manipulation

  
  

  
  

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  Module 6: programming
  

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