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10 July to 24 July 2009
Aim of the Course:
This 2-week course will show you how to use Excel or R to create more
effective graphic presentations.
Who Should Take This Course: Anyone who wants to enhance their articles or
presentations, oral or written, with graphs and charts
Instructor: Dr. Phillip Good, former Calloway Professor of Computer Science at the University of Georgia (Fort Valley) and graduate of the program in mathematical statistics at UC Berkeley, is the author of
Introduction to Statistics via Resampling Methods and R/Excel (Wiley, 2005),
Common Errors in Statistics (and How to Avoid Them) (Wiley, 2nd ed.,
2006 with James Hardin), Resampling Methods (Birkhauser, 2nd ed, 2005), Permutation, Parametric, and Bootstrap Tests of Hypotheses (Springer, 3rd ed, 2004),
Manager's Guide to Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials (Wiley, 2nd ed,
2005), and Applying Statistics in the Courtroom (CRC, 2001). He has given tutorials at the Joint Statistical Meetings (U.S.) and Deming Conference, lectured in Belgium, France, Holland, Ireland, and Spain, and was a traveling lecturer for the American Statistical Association. This is his
sixth (6th) year of providing on-line interactive courses.
Prerequisite:
Prerequisite: You should have familiarity with basic statistical concepts.
You should have some familiarity with Excel or with R (as in Introduction to
R).
Organization
of the Course: The
course takes place over the Internet. During each course week, you
participate at times of your own choosing - there are no set times when you must
be online. Course participants will be given an alias and access to a private
bulletin board that serves as a forum for discussion of ideas, problem solving,
and interaction with the instructor. The course is scheduled to take place over
two weeks. Estimated
weekly time requirements for this course - an hour and
a half to two hours for the lecture, and another three hours for homework and review.
At the beginning of
each week, participants receive the relevant material, in addition to answers to
exercises from the previous session. During the week, participants are expected
to go over the course materials and work through exercises. Discussion among
participants is encouraged. The instructor will provide answers and comments.
Optional
Texts: Participants may wish to purchase and make use of
Introduction to Statistics via Resampling Methods and R/S-Plus,
Introduction to Statistics via Resampling Methods and Microsoft Excel,
and/or Common Errors in Statistics (and How to Avoid Them).
- Session I: Eleven Rules for More Effective Graphs
Text elements
Subgroups
Pie Charts'
3-D Graphs
Multi-dimensional
displays
Text, table, or
Graph
Oral Presentations
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Session 2:
Advanced Graphic Methods
Color
Plotting
residuals
Plots with multiple
lines
Side-by-side plots
Software
essentials
One week is allowed after Session 2 to give participants
the opportunity to clarify any questions arising from this or previous sessions.
Cost
of course is $225. If
you register before June 23rd, you need pay only $195. Government
employees, students, faculty and research
workers at academic and research institutions are eligible for
a further discount of $35. Just send an
email to courses@statisticsonline.info
from your institution or government email account to receive a
discount coupon.
Immediately
after your payment is credited, you will receive an email giving you a password,
sign up instructions, and the web address (URL) of the course material.
Note that you will not be able to access this address until the start date of
the course.
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