PHC 6068: Biostatistical ComputingInstructors:Zhiguang Huo (zhuo@ufl.edu) TAs: Hanz Gao (gaohanzhi@ufl.edu) Lecture times: Monday: 12:50-14:45, CTRB, Room 5235 Wednesday: 13:55-14:45, CTRB, Room 5235 Office hours: HZ: Monday 3-5pm, CTRB, Room 5230 GH: Thursday 4-5pm, CTRB, Room 5254-C08 Syllabus: here. Courseweb: elearning. |
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| Date | Content | Materials | Note |
| Wed Aug 22 | Overview of statistical computing | slides | |
| Mon Aug 27 | Basics of R programming | slides, RMarkdown.rmd | Example HW0 Rmd, HW0 answer html |
| Wed Aug 29 | Writing functions in R | slides | HW 1 distributed |
| Mon Sep 3 | No class, Labor Day! | ||
| Wed Sep 5 | Vectorized calculations | slides | |
| Mon Sep 10 | Using HiPerGator (guest lecture Matt) | slides (Matt), slides2 | |
| Wed Sep 12 | R graphics (basic) | slides, heatmap.2 | HW 1 due, HW 2 distributed |
| Mon Sep 17 | R graphics (advanced) | qplot, ggplot | |
| Wed Sep 19 | Data manipulation (Tidyverse) | slides | |
| Mon Sep 24 | R packages | slides | |
| Wed Sep 26 | Rcpp | slides | HW 2 due, Final project distributed |
| Mon Oct 1 | Github | slides | |
| Wed Oct 3 | Matrix operation and Algebra review | slides | Midterm distributed |
| Mon Oct 8 | Midterms, no class! | ||
| Wed Oct 10 | Simulating random variables | slides | Midterm due, HW 3 distributed |
| Mon Oct 15 | Dimension reduction | slides | |
| Wed Oct 17 | Clustering method | slides | |
| Mon Oct 22 | Optimization | slides | |
| Wed Oct 24 | Decision Tree | slides | HW 3 due, HW 4 distributed |
| Mon Oct 29 | Linear models | slides | |
| Wed Oct 31 | Lasso and Ridge regression | slides | |
| Mon Nov 5 | Generalized linear models | slides | |
| Wed Nov 7 | Mixed model | slides | HW 4 due, HW 5 distributed |
| Mon Nov 12 | No class, Veterans Day! | ||
| Wed Nov 14 | Bootstrapping | slides | |
| Mon Nov 19 | Simulation | slides | |
| Wed Nov 21 | No class, last holiday! | ||
| Mon Nov 26 | Markov Chain Monte Carlo | slides | HW 5 due, HW 6 distributed |
| Wed Nov 28 | Cross validation | slides | |
| Mon Dec 3 | No class | ||
| Wed Dec 5 | No class | HW 6 due, Final exam released (due on Dec 14) | |
| Mon Dec 10 | No class, take home Finals | Final project due |