An alignment course for students who have been admitted to the Master's Degree in Statistical Sciences for the academic year 2025/26 and have never studied or employed the R statistical software has been organised.
The course lasts a total of 10 hours; it is scheduled to take place in a computer lab in the week between 8 September and 12 September. The complete calendar of lectures is available on this webpage:
https://corsi.unibo.it/2cycle/StatisticalSciences/timetable?anno=1&curricula=A91-000
For such course there is no examination or award of credits.
Lectures can also be attended remotely; links to the Teams rooms for remote participation will be shared with the interested students.
Here are the main topics of this course:
- Load/save files and workspaces
- Create matrices, vectors and arrays
- Install and load packages
- Change working directory
- Use of logical functions
- Loading data (e.g.: read.table)
- Chaining data (e.g.: cbind, rbind)
- Creation of data structures (e.g.: data.frame)
- Data transformation (e.g.: scale) and calculation of basic statistics (e.g.: sum, mean, median, min, max, var, sd, cov, cor, summary, table, apply)
- Data visualization (scatter plot, box plot, histogram, bar plot)
- Linear regression (lm, anova)
