PHC 6068: Biostatistical ComputingInstructors:Zhiguang Huo (zhuo@ufl.edu) TAs: Amy Crisp (amy.crisp@ufl.edu) Lecture time and room: Monday: 12:50-14:45, Room: HPNP G-307 Wednesday: 13:55-14:45, Room: HPNP G-307 Office hours: HZ: Monday 3:00-5:00pm, Room: CTRB 5230 CA: Thursday 12:30-2:30pm, Room: CTRB 5223 Syllabus: here. Courseweb: elearning. |
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| Date | Content | Materials | Note |
| Wed Aug 21 | Overview of statistical computing | slides | Example HW0 Rmd, HW0 answer html |
| Mon Aug 26 | Basics of R programming | slides, RMarkdown.rmd | HW 1 distributed |
| Wed Aug 28 | Writing functions in R | slides | |
| Mon Sep 2 | No class, Labor Day! | ||
| Wed Sep 4 | No class, keep safe and dry! | ||
| Mon Sep 9 | Vectorized calculations, Data manipulation (Tidyverse) | slides (vectorized), slides (tidyverse) | HW 1 due (postponed to Sep 14th), HW 2 distributed |
| Wed Sep 11 | R graphics (basic) | slides | |
| Mon Sep 16 | R graphics (advanced) | slides (heatmap.2), slides (ggplot2) | |
| Wed Sep 18 | Using HiPerGator (guest lecture Matt) | slides (Rstudio on HiperGator) | slides (Matt) |
| Mon Sep 23 | R packages | slides (Rpackage), slides (Advanced HiperGator) | HW 2 due, Final project distributed |
| Wed Sep 25 | Rcpp | slides | |
| Mon Sep 30 | Github | slides | Midterm distributed |
| Wed Oct 2 | Matrix operation and Algebra review | slides | |
| Mon Oct 7 | Dimension reduction | slides | Midterm due, HW 3 distributed |
| Wed Oct 9 | Clustering method | slides | |
| Mon Oct 14 | Linear models | slides | |
| Wed Oct 16 | Lasso and Ridge regression | slides | |
| Mon Oct 21 | Generalized linear models | slides | HW 3 due, HW 4 distributed |
| Wed Oct 23 | Mixed model | slides | |
| Mon Oct 28 | Optimization | slides | |
| Wed Oct 30 | Simulation 1 | slides | |
| Mon Nov 4 | Simulation 2 | slides | HW 4 due, HW 5 distributed |
| Wed Nov 6 | Bootstrapping | slides | |
| Mon Nov 11 | No class, Veterans Day! | ||
| Wed Nov 13 | Decision Tree | slides | |
| Mon Nov 18 | Cross validation | slides | HW 5 due, HW 6 distributed |
| Wed Nov 20 | Monte Carlo methods | slides | |
| Mon Nov 25 | Markov Chain Monte Carlo | slides | |
| Wed Nov 27 | Thanksgiving! Eat food | ||
| Mon Dec 2 | No class | ||
| Wed Dec 4 | No class | HW 6 due, Final exam released | |
| Mon Dec 9 | No class, take home Finals | Final project due | |
| Wed Dec 11 | No class | Final exam due |