Introduction and Preliminaries

Week 1: Aug 21 – Aug 25

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Weekly Objectives

• Basic course information, schedule, and requirements, including homework, quizzes and final project.
• Read course policy on the syllabus
• Register and be familiar with Canvas and Gradescope
• Setup and be familiar with R. You can also use Python if you prefer, and it should be able to complete 99% of the tasks.
• Learn to use RMarkdown to organize your work, including code chunks, figures, tables, and latex equations
• Use AI tools to assist your learning and programming

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Lecture Notes and R Examples

• Course Introduction
• R and RStudio Intro [Source File]
• R Markdown Intro [Source File]
• Using VS Code and Github Copilot [Source File]
  • Copilot is not required for this course, but it is quite useful in various situations
  • Following this guild, you can get Copilot for free through the GitHub education program.
• Birthrate Data used in the R examples

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Homework

• Homework 1 [Source File]
• Homework Template [Source File]
• Due Aug 31, 11:59PM CT
• If you need some online guides for Latex, consider this one from Overleaf. Or use AI tools to help you complete these tasks.
• Please pay attention to the formatting requirements, and see the examples in the template and solution.
• Solution