STAT 540 Computing in Statistics (Fall 2025)

Class times: 1:15 - 2:30 pm Tuesdays and Thursdays in LeConte College 103

Office hours: 3:00 - 4:00 pm Tuesdays and Wednesdays in LeConte College 216C

TA office hour: Patrick Jin, 12:00 - 1:00 pm Mondays in LeConte College 111

R notes	Annotated	Code	Topics
R objects	pdf	Rscript	Introduction, types of objects in R
R basic operations	pdf	Rscript	Arithmetic operations, logical comparisons, statistics functions, missing values, applying functions to matrices and arrays, making plots
R defining functions	pdf	Rscript	Defining functions, conditional programming
R for loops	pdf	Rscript	For loop, nested for loops
R while loops	pdf	Rscript	While loops
R statistics functions	pdf	Rscript	Statistics functions
R Monte Carlo methods	pdf	Rscript	Monte Carlo methods for integration and optimization
R Monte Carlo experiments	pdf	Rscript	Monte Carlo experiments for investigating performance of statistical inference methods
R importing data	pdf	Rscript	Importing and formatting data
R manipulating data	pdf	Rscript	Merging, stacking, reshaping, and aggregating data

Python notes	Annotated	Code	Topics
Python objects		Notebook Notebook 2	Introduction, types of objects, NumPy arrays
Python basic operations	pdf	Notebook	Defining functions, plotting in Matplotlib, conditional programming
Python loops	pdf	Notebook	For loops and while loops
Python import data		Notebook	Importing data with the Pandas library
Python manipulate data		Notebook	Merging, stacking, reshaping, and aggregating data

SQL notes	Annotated	Code	Topics
SQL basics		.qmd	Connecting to a data base, submitting basic queries
SQL in R			Storing SQL query results in R data frames

Homework	Due
R Homework 1	Th. Sep 18, 11:59 pm. Render to html, print to pdf, upload to Blackboard.
R Homework 2	Th. Oct 2, 11:59 pm. Render to html, print to pdf, upload to Blackboard.
Python Homework	Tu. Nov 11, 11:59 pm. Render Jupyter notebook to html, print to pdf, upload to Blackboard.

scatterplot with the trajectory of a particle overlaid