Introduction to Statistics Computation: 3 hours

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(Prerequisite: ST 3133 ). Three hours lecture. An introduction to statistical computing with the R language: R/RStudio workflow; objects, vectors, and data frames; importing, cleaning, and reshaping data; visualization with the ggplot2 package; data wrangling with the tidyverse package; control flow, vectorization, and functions; iteration (the purrr map family); reproducible reports with R Markdown/Quarto; simulation (random number generation, Monte Carlo); basic modeling (simple regression, multiple regression overview); and good coding practices, documentation, and ethics