Slides are here:

• Week 1 Lecture
• Week 1 Tutorial

To prepare for this class:

• Just show up!

Objectives of this class:

A. Introductions

• Your background, and what you are planning to do after graduation
• My background, and what I’m planning to do in the course
• Weekly structure of the course
• Assignments
• Breakdown of marks
• Office hours, emails, phone calls, etc.
• Collect email addresses for class listserv

B. Radon data

• Introduction to radon
• Provenance of the dataset
• Description of the variables

C. Variable types

• Dichotomous
• Binary
• Categorical
• Ordinal
• Continuous

D. Statistical software

• Meet Angela!
• Introduction to the Deducer graphical user interface for R
• Help with installation
• Loading data