Week 1 Downloads
Week 1 Outline
- Review R and basic statistics and graphs (from last Thursday)
- R tutorial
- R calculator
- Collecting commute times as data
- Vectors and simple statistics: mean, sd, min, max
- Central tendancy: mean vs. median vs. mode
- Spread: variance, standard deviation; sample vs. population
- Displaying with boxplot and hist
- Submitting files for assignments
- Assignment 1
- Complete attendance cards
- Name, possibly include preferred name, pronouns, pronunciation
- Major and/or reason for course
- Concerns or comments on course
- Anything about you (favorite ice cream or movie)
- Thursday: review hist and boxplot functions
- Using R to analyze 1000 movies (zipped folder)
- Questions on assignment 1
- Class activity: evaluate writing samples
- Identifying outliers
- Using boxplot
- Using the 1.5 IQR rule
- Types of distributions
- Uniform
- Bimodal
- Normal (gaussian)
- Introduce assignment 2