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STAT-5054: Introduction to Statistical Computing

Description: Introduction to modern programming packages for data analysis. Basics of coding, language syntax, and statistical functionality to read in raw data files and data sets, subset data, create variables, and recode data. Summaries in the form of tables and graphs. Data analysis using standard statistical methods and data management and analysis of large data sets. Parallel computing. Applied data analysis is emphasized rather than statistical theory. Pre: Graduate standing.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: N/A

Required By: ECON-5144, STAT-5154, STAT-6554

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 8

Average GPA: 3.88 (A)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 79.09%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.00%

Joshua N Sampson2020100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.892
Christian Lucero2021100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%4.001
Hongxiao Zhu202386.8%13.2%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.884
Thomas H Woteki202188.9%0.0%11.1%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.781

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