Introduction to R

Lecturers	Two members of the Statistical Consulting Service, ETH Zurich
Certificate	Confirmation of participation
Target audience	Users from all professional groups who have basic knowledge in statistics.
Costs	30% Corona discount for 2020 CHF ~~600.-~~ 420.- for members of UZH/ETH and associated institutes CHF ~~800.-~~ 560.- for alumni of UZH/ETH, members of other universities, the public sector and non-profit organizations CHF ~~1200.-~~ 840.- for companies Persons without current employment can register for the UZH/ETH fee upon request.
Course language	English
Course Description	The course gives an introduction to efficiently work with R. Among other topics, data import, basic data manipulation, data visualization and reporting are discussed. In addition, the course shows how to conduct and interpret commonly used statistical methods (especially linear regression) in an example-driven way. When possible, brief insights into specialized packages such as knitr or ggplot2 will be included. The course requires no previous experience with R, but participants are expected to have at least basic knowledge of statistics (to the extent of, e.g., an introductory lecture). The statistical basics will be briefly repeated with focus on linear regression. All Zurich R Courses participants should bring their own laptops to the course and will be informed by email in advance which packages they need to install.
Dates	February 13-14, 2020 June 4-5, 2020 [canceled] September 10-11, 2020 - FULLY BOOKED
	After registering you will receive a short automatic confirmation by email. If you received this email you are successfully and bindingly registered for the course. For administrative reasons the written invoice won't be sent out until about two weeks before the course.