Last year's TA Sathya, kept a web site with several useful
files on it: code.
Office hours: Tuesday at 2pm (Huntsman 472). Or email me for an appointment.
Course work:
submit all exercises to statistics.assignments@gmail.com
Exercises (to introduce you to R. These are not that
important--they are more for your benefit.)
Homeworks (or more accurately, cases)
Final project
Note: You are the best students on campus. I have very high
expecations on what you will learn this semester. This class is often listed as taking the most work of
any class taken at wharton on student evaluations.
We will be using R (free) as our statistics
package. I'll be using R in class. The book is on R. Statistics
revolves around R.
Two useful books on R:
Introductory Statistics with R by Peter Dalgaard, 2nd edition, ISBN 978-0-387-79053-4, Springer 2008 (paperback).
Linear Models with R by Julian J. Faraway, ISBN 1-58488-425-8,
Chapman & Hall/CRC Press 2005, (hardback)
Jan 13 @ 1-2 (F96): Introduction to R (by Joshua).
bring your laptops!
After seeing his introduction, you should be able to do the
first practice R set. If you have
questions about doing this, send us an email and we can add more
information to the file.
Jan 22 (weekend!) Work on learning R. Do Josh's 2nd
practice to confirm you are good with R. Turn it in on
Wednesday. If you have R down, you should start on HW 1. At any rate, start reading
Berndt chapter 2.
See the end of this page for other data sets of interest
KOPCKE data for homework 4: (raw
data) Note strange file format. You WILL need to edit
it! If you read it into a text editor you will see that
there are TWO different columns of number. Here are some comments on the
file.