Upcoming online short courses at statistics.com:
(1) Introduction to Data Mining (March 11 – April 8)
(2) Introduction to R (March 11 – April 1)
NOTE: Familiarity with both subjects is recommended for the May 20 “DNA
Microarray Analysis” course.
(1) “Introduction to Data Mining” (March 11 – April 8) covers two core
paradigms of data mining: classification and prediction. Five techniques
will be used: k-nearest neighbors, classification and regression trees
(CART), neural nets, logistic regression and multiple linear regression.
The instructor, Dr. Anthony Babinec, is on the Board of Directors of the
Chicago Chapter of the American Statistical Association, and the Editorial
Board of the “Journal of Targeting, Measurement and Analysis for
Marketing.” Before forming AB Analytics, Dr. Babinec worked at SPSS Inc. in
a variety of technical and managerial roles.
Registration and details:
<http://www.statistics.com/content/courses/datamining/index.html>http://www.statistics.com/content/courses/datamining/index.html
(2) “Introduction to R” (March 11 – April 1) will cover downloading and
installing R, data handling, drawing samples, the bootstrap, looping,
downloading and using R libraries from other sources, building your own
functions, more.
The instructor is Dr. Phillip Good, author of “Introduction to Statistics
via Resampling Methods and R” and numerous other statistics texts.
Registration and details:
http://www.statistics.com/content/courses/R/index.html
In both courses you get direct access to the instructor via a private
discussion board, and there are no set hours when you must be online.
Peter Bruce
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