Lecture-01: Course Introduction

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Topics

  • Syllabus Overview
  • Inferential Statistics: Defining quantitative data
  • Data Analysis: Intro to R and RStudio
  • Quantitative Research: What is a workflow?

Readings

Required

  • OpenIntro: Chapter 1, pages 7-26 (Electronic Reserves)
  • R4DS:
    • Print - Preface or
    • Web - Chapter 1 (Link)
  • SSDS - Chapters 1 through 5 (Link)
  • Wheelan - Chapter 1 (ER)

Optional

  • Wilson, Greg, Jennifer Bryan, Karen Cranston, Justin Kitzes, Lex Nederbragt, and Tracy K. Teal. 2017. “Good enough practices in scientific computing.”" PLoS computational biology 13(6):e1005510. (ER)

Assignments

Due Before Class

  • From Prior Lecture: Lecture Prep 01 and Lecture Prep 02

Due Before Next Class

  • none