PHC 6068: Biostatistical ComputingInstructors:Zhiguang Huo (zhuo@ufl.edu) TAs: None (xxx at ufl at edu) Lecture times: Monday: 12:50-14:45, CTRB, Room 5235 Wednesday: 13:55-14:45, CTRB, Room 5235 Office hours: Monday 3-5pm, CTRB, Room 5230 Syllabus: here. Courseweb: elearning. |
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| Date | Content | Materials | Note |
| Mon Aug 21 | Overview of statistical computing | slides | |
| Wed Aug 23 | Basics of R programming | slides, R RMarkdown | HW Example Rmd, HW Example html |
| Mon Aug 28 | Writing functions in R | slides, R | HW 1 distributed |
| Wed Aug 30 | Using HiPerGator (guest lecture) | slides, tutorial, R jobs | slides updated |
| Mon Sep 4 | Holiday | ||
| Wed Sep 6 | Vectorized calculations | slides, R | |
| Mon Sep 11 | No class, keep safe! | HW1 due postponed to Fri Sep 15 | |
| Wed Sep 13 | No class | Midterms canceled (make up missed lectures) | |
| Mon Sep 18 | R graphics | slides(basic), R(1) slides(ggplot2), R(2) | HW 2 distributed |
| Wed Sep 20 | Matrix operations | slides, R, HiperGator | |
| Mon Sep 25 | Dimension reduction | slides, R | PCAnote |
| Wed Sep 27 | Simulating random variables | slides, R | |
| Mon Oct 2 | Linear models | slides, R | HW 3 distributed, HW2 due |
| Wed Oct 4 | Lasso and Ridge regression | slides, R | |
| Mon Oct 9 | Generalized linear models | slides, R | |
| Wed Oct 11 | Mixed model | slides, R | |
| Mon Oct 16 | R packages | slides | Final project distributed, HW3 due |
| Wed Oct 18 | Rcpp | slides | |
| Mon Oct 23 | Univariate optimization | slides, R | HW 4 distributed |
| Wed Oct 25 | Decision Tree | slides | |
| Mon Oct 30 | Simulation study part 1 | slides, R | |
| Wed Nov 1 | Simulation study part 2 | slides, R | |
| Mon Nov 6 | Bootstrap and permutation | slides, R | HW 5 distributed, HW 4 due |
| Wed Nov 8 | Cross validation | slides, R | |
| Mon Nov 13 | Monte Carlo methods | slides, R | |
| Wed Nov 15 | Gibbs sampling | slides, R | |
| Mon Nov 20 | Objective oriented programming (guest lecture by Mi, Xinlei) | slides, R | HW 6 distributed, HW 5 due |
| Wed Nov 22 | Holiday! Eat food! | ||
| Mon Nov 27 | Multivariate optimization | slides, R | |
| Wed Nov 29 | LDA, SVM | slides, R | |
| Mon Dec 4 | Final presentation part 1 | HW 6 due | |
| Wed Dec 6 | Final presentation part 2 | ||
| Mon Dec 11 | No class, take home Finals | Final project (package) due, Final exam distributed (due Fri Dec 15) |