Class Schedule: | T,Th 10:00-11:15 | |
Class Location: | Duffy 207 | |
Professor: | Dr. Eugene Quinn | |
email: | equinn1@stonehill.edu | |
My schedule and office hours: | Fall2014 |
General Information | Announcements | Syllabus | Notes and Handouts | Assignments | Software | Policies | Grading |
8/28/2014 | Stonehill College is committed to providing all students equal access to learning opportunities. The Center for Academic Achievement is the campus office that works with students who have disabilities to provide and/or arrange reasonable accommodations. Students registered with The Center, who have a letter requesting accommodations, are encouraged to contact the instructor early in the semester. Students who have, or think they may have, a disability (e.g. psychiatric, attentional, learning, vision, hearing, physical, or systemic), are invited to contact The Center for Academic Achievement for a confidential discussion at 508-565-1208. |
Assignment Number | Date Due | Assignment |
Date | Description |
We will have an install-a-thon on the first day class meets, so be sure to bring your computer.
There are some dependencies among the programs listed, so try to install them in the following order:
Item | Description | Links |
LaTeX (pronounced "la-tech") | LaTeX is the gold standard for typesetting documents containing scientific and math notation. We will use LaTeX in conjunction with the Sweave R package to produce composite documents. | My LaTeX page. Mac users should install MacTex, windows users should install MikTex. |
JAGS ("Just Another Gibbs Sampler") | A package for performing Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation | mcmc-jags.sourceforge.net |
The R statistical computing system | Open-source statistical computing system. R currently has over 5,000 packages and tends to be the place cutting-edge techniques show up first. | Instructions for downloading and installing the R statistical computing environment (for windows, but Mac is similar). |
Rstudio | Integrated development environment (IDE) for R | www.rstudio.com |
The rjags R package | rjags provides an interface to JAGS from within R | Once you have R working, enter the following command: install.packages("rjags") then choose a mirror site (any one will do) to download this package. R and JAGS must be already installed. |
Python | Python has become the "Swiss Army Knife" of data extraction and manipulation, combining ease of use and power. | Anaconda is a free PYTHON distribution tailored for large-scale data analysis. |
IPython | An IDE for Python. | IPython provides an architecture for interactive computing with Python. |
SAS | The SAS system | SAS is a large commercial software package that is very widely used for data analysis. SAS makes their system available to students and faculty for the duration of a course. You will need to register with SAS and indicate that you are enrolled in this course. Detailed instructions for registering can be found here. We will be using their web client, so no software needs to be installed on your computer. |
GitHub | A collaborative source management tool | GitHub is becoming very popular as the repository for computational details on publications containing complicated statistical analyses. |
The relative weight of each will be as follows:
Assignments and Projects | 50% |
Midterm Exam | 15% |
Final Exam | 35% |
These include:
All members of the College community have the responsibility to be familiar with,
to support, and to abide by the College's policy on academic honesty. This responsibility includes reporting known or suspected violations of this policy to the appropriate faculty
member or to the Dean of the Faculty in the Office of Academic Affairs.
Academic dishonesty includes but is not limited to the following:
(Page 108 of The Hill Book )
The policies listed under Class Attendance on page 108 of The Hill Book apply;
Note in particular the following:
(Page 108 of The Hill Book - note exceptions for prolonged illness and conflicts with religious beliefs)
My idea of legitimate absences includes:
The value of the final examination is determined by the instructor. If a student misses the examination without sufficient reason, a grade of F is given for this part of the course requirements. The semester grade is then determined in the same way as for students who took the examination.
(Page 109 of The Hill Book)
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