Course description
Introduction to R; Simple manipulations; Data storage and Management; Probability distributions; Grouping, loops and conditional execution; Writing functions; Statistical models in R; Graphical procedures, Overview of the SAS language and simple procedures for graphing and data analysis.
Objectives of the course
- To introduce the R language to students as environment to understand and for statistical data analysis.
- To introduce SAS for statistical data analysis.
Learning outcomes:
At the end of this course, students are expected to:
- Load, manipulate and use data in R,
- Perform matrix algebra in R,
- Run basic statistical models,
- Write simple functions and programs in R,
- Carryout simulation for estimation and hypothesis test,
- Install packages and use them for upper-level methods,
- Draw graphs using the graphics packages,
- Use the R software for statistical computation and analysis,
- Use resources about R to look-up more information about it.
- Use SAS to carry out simple graphs and data analysis.
- Teacher: Belay Belete