Getting Up to Speed with R: Certificate Program in R for Statistical Analysis, Visualization and Modeling
| Presented: | Wednesday, May 30, 2012 |
| Presenter: | Peter Bruce, Founder, Statistics.com |
The Institute for Statistics Education at Statistics.com offers a graduate-level certificate program in R for those who want to use the R statistical programming environment for statistical analysis, visualization and modeling. The Institute offers continuing education credits as well as a Program completion certificate. Courses are offered year-round (there is no semester system) on a flexible schedule. The content of the Program is the equivalent of 18 credits, in the US academic system. Faculty include R core development team members, package developers, authors of books on R: Paul Murrell, Hadley Wickham, Thomas Lumley, Sudha Purohit, Luis Torgo, John Verzani, others.
Learn about the structure of the certificate and available courses through the Institute, which are offered in 3 categories:
- Basic programming skills in R
- Statistical methods implemented in R
- R applied to specific domains
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About the Speaker
 Peter Bruce |
Peter Bruce founded The Institute for Statistics Education 2002; he is also the developer of Resampling Stats software (originated by Julian Simon in the 1970's), and has taught resampling statistics at the Institute, as well as at the University of Maryland and in a variety of short courses. He is the co-author of Data Mining for Business Intelligence (Wiley, 2006, 2nd ed. 2010), as well as a number of journal articles. |