This special three-day course is designed for those who want to learn to write programs to accomplish typical data-processing tasks, including creating graphics. The course will give beginners a strong foundation for becoming a versatile programmer, and will expose experienced users toskills that make a better programmer.

• develop code with high standards
• use the graphical features of the software to explore data
• perform basics statistics and fit linear regression

Day 1

• An Overview of the Software: Installation and Demonstration
• Data Manipulation and Graphics
• A Comparison of R and S-PLUS
• Complementing and Extending SAS

Day 2

• Writing Functions
• Data Mining and Statistical Modeling
• Case Studies With Data from Participants

Day 3

• Project Management
• Techniques for Effective use of the System
• Connecting the System to External Data Sources
• Enhancing Plots

This course consists of a series of short lectures with demonstrations and interactive sessions for the participants. Each student is provided with bound copies of the notes and a CD-ROM containing all examples, exercises used on the course.

Duration: 3 days

Before attending this course, you should have some basic computer experience:

• use a keyboard
• running software under windows and/or unix environment
• knowledge of basic statistics
  Interested in our training? Please email the
  
  Training Department
  XLSolutions Corporation
  sue@xlsolutions-corp.com