October@Beijing
Lecturer Introduction:
Gino, a Chinese in his thirty's, who majored in mathematics for a bachelor's degree andstatistics for a master's degree from a prestigious university in an earliertime, has a rich experience in R programming and teaching.
Gino solved tonsof modelling problems when he worked in the economical sector of a Top 500 Global corporations.
By doing so, heaccumulated abundant skills in modelling by kinds of software, such as SAS, R,Matlab and Stata. Among these, he chose R as the most powerful one.
During 2013, Ginogave several classes about how to use R to model in the field of statistics andEconometrics, launching a R study and training trend in this Forum, benefitingthousands of people in using R to solve the problems in study or research, andgot a highly credit from his students.
Although not anative speaker of English, Gino speaks and writes English fairly well. He can give excellent courses on statistics and econometrics using R.
Course Introduction:
The course covers all the fundamentals in statistics and econometrics and starts from the introduction of R basic function in data management and statistics, by giving some typical examples to demonstrate key issues of R.
You will masterpractical skills to deal with the annoying data management problem before doinga seconds-running problem.
Graphing inmodelling becomes more and more important, the course won't let you down if youwant to draw elegant pictures to show your results clearly. There's no moresoftware can draw beautiful images than R.
Of course, loopsand function are the core of R, which are fully explained in this course withample instances.
Later on, thiscourse steps into the field of Probability Theory and Statistics. You will findthe magic effect that all the aspects, such as Estimation of Parameters,Testing Hypotheses, Linear Least Squares, could be done in R within secondsconveniently. Linear models could be realized in R swiftly.
The course stretches the contents to two fundamental turfs, Multivariate Analysis and Time Series,which are widely used in all kinds of industries.
The course chooses Meta-analysis as a final part because it is getting significant concernsnowadays.
Course Features:
1. Intentionally avoids the complex mathematical formulas but the most important ones and layemphasis on the idea, method of certain statistical method or concept;
2. Demonstratingabstract thoughts by using concrete examples that could be happened in ourdaily study and research frequently;
3. Never skips thecodes hazing students to understand and clearly explains every codes and resultsof every model. That means, statistical meanings of every results could befully understood by the students;
4. Not alwayspreaching at students while passing out problems for group discussion andlearning by doing;
5. Patientlyanswering questions from the students in the middle of class and encouragesprompt questions while listening.
Target Candidates:
1. Those who wantto step into the career of data analysis using a powerful tool with acomparative weak foundation of statistics and computer skills;
2. Studentsoverseas who want to grasp a statistical software to advance the research intheir study, especially those quickly makes use of these methods in the paperpublishing;
3. All the peoplewho wish a systematical training both on statistics and R.
Outline:
A short introduction to R | How to install R and Rstudio |
How to install the packages and make use of them | |
How to get help when meeting difficulties | |
Some examples Using R | |
The do's and don'ts when Using R | |
Importing kinds of data into R | Concatenating Data with the c Function |
Combining variables and data Using cbind(), rbind(),vector(),data.frame(),list(). | |
Creating matrix, array and calculating them | |
Importing data from other sources | |
Summarizing and managing the subsets of data | Using str function, attach function and $ sign to |
Sorting the data according to certain conditions | |
Merging two data sets | |
Factoring categorical variables | |
Exporting data | |
"apply" function family | |
Using table function to find distributions | |
Graphing skills with R | Exploring the plot function from basic to proficiency |
Symbols, Colours, Sizes and legend | |
How to add a smoothing line | |
The Pie Chart, Bar Chart and Strip Chart | |
The Boxplot | |
Histogram and QQ plot (How to test normal distribution) | |
Adding the Mean to a Cleveland Dotplot | |
The Coplot | |
Conditions, Loops and Functions | Using "if" for condition choices |
Some examples Using "for" syntax | |
Constructing the Loop | |
Zeros and NAs | |
Using loop and function to calculate index | |
Basic Probability Theory Using R | Random Variables in R (Discrete and Continuous) |
Joint distributions and conditional distributions | |
Covariance and correlation (matrix) | |
Histograms, Density Curves, and Stem-and-Leaf Plots | |
Estimation of Parameters Using R | The Method of Moments |
The Method of Maximum Likelihood | |
Using t.test() to Estimate Parameters | |
Estimation for abnormal distributions | |
The Bayesian Approach to Parameter Estimation | |
Testing Hypotheses Using R | Significance Level and the Concept of P-value |
The Null Hypothesis | |
Likelihood Ratio Tests | |
Tests for Normality | |
Comparing Two Samples (Independent or paired) | |
The Analysis of Categorical Data with R | Fisher's Exact Test |
The Chi-Square Test of Homogeneity and Independence | |
The Independent Test of contingency table | |
Odds Ratios | |
Linear Least Squares (Regression) with R | Simple Linear Regression |
Statistical Properties of Least Squares Estimates | |
Multiple Linear Regression examples | |
Partially Linear Regression | |
Linear Regression with Time Series Data | |
Linear Regression with Panel Data | |
The 2SLS Method by R (examples) | |
Regression Diagnostics | |
Other Important Regression Models by R | Generalized Linear Models |
Logistic Regression Model (Example and Analysis) | |
nls() function for Non-Linear Models | |
Regression Models for Count Data | |
Tobit and Censored Dependent Variables | |
Case with Quantile Regression | |
Multivariate Analysis with R | Discriminant Analysis (Theory and Examples) |
Cluster Analysis (Theory and Examples) | |
Principal Component Analysis (Theory and Examples) | |
Factor Analysis (Theory and Examples) | |
Monte Carlo Method with R | Introduction to Monte Carlo Method |
Random shot point Method | |
Mean Value Method | |
Precision of the Two Method | |
Time Series with R | Differences and Lags |
Creating ARIMA Models and Diagnostics | |
Predicted Values | |
Durbin-Watson Test for Autocorrelation | |
Stationarity,Unit Roots, and Cointegration | |
Error Correction Model | |
Introduction to Meta-Analysis with R | Fixed-Effects and Random-Effects in Meta-Analysis |
Meta-Analysis with Binary Data | |
Meta-Analysis for Continuous Data | |
Heterogeneity in Meta-Analysis | |
Meta-Regression |
The Registration Process:
1, Mail your name and University / Company to vip@pinggu.org;
2, Pay online after the confirming call from us (RMB 12000 / RMB 8000 for full-time college student);
3, Prepare the course after receiving the lecture note one week before the course.
Contact Information:
QQ:1143703950
Mail:vip@pinggu.org
Tel:010-68478566