STATS 506, Fall 2024
Computational Methods and Tools in Statistics

Course Material

Syllabus

Assignments

Preliminary Assignment - Git/Github
Problem Set 1 due Sep 12
Problem Set 1 Solutions
Problem Set 2 due Sep 26
Problem Set 2 Solutions
Problem Set 3 due Oct 10
Problem Set 4 due Oct 31

Quiz 1 Solutions
Quiz 2 Solutions
Quiz 3 Solutions

Midterm

Midterm details

Lecture Notes

01 - Introduction to R
02 - Quarto and RMarkdown
03 - Version Control and Git
04 - Vectorization and Monte Carlo
05 - Debugging Function in R
06 - Fitting Models in R
07 - SQL
08 - Regular Expressions
09 - The Tidyverse
10 - R Visualization - Base R and ggplot2

Scripts from Lecture

These are the scripts I work on during class. I make no promises that these are complete or useful.

Aug 27
Sep 5
Sep 17 [1, 2]
Sep 26
Oct 8

Aug 29
Sep 10
Sep 19 [1, 2, 3]
Oct 1 [1, 2]
Oct 10

Sep 3
Sep 12
Sep 24 [1, 2]
Oct 3 [1, 2]

Miscellanous

Using LLMs
Developing a Consistent R Style
Blank SQL joins worksheet
Completed SQL joins worksheet