Almost every major organizations and universities use R. Google not only uses R but has also written standards for the language that are widely accepted.
This course focuses upon understanding statistical models and analysing the results whilst learning to work with R. As well as introducing the software to newcomers, it presents basic and more advanced statistics.
We will start with descriptive statistics and visual representation of data, which is the first step for most statistical analyses. We then introduce the linear regression model, a widely used model with two main purposes: modelling relationships among the data and predicting future observations. After that, we will extend the linear model to the generalised linear framework, in order to analyse non-normally distributed variables.
Each day consists of short lectures with examples and exercises in which you apply what you have learned right away. At the end of the course there will be a written assignment which will be graded.
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