These are the homework assignments and project guidelines for R and Introductory Data Mining at Eastern Kentucky University.
| Date | Week | Unit | Topic | Notes | Reading |
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| 8/22/2016 | 1 | 1 | Installing R; R Studio; Pandoc. IDE Orientation Finding Help |
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| 8/24/2016 | 1 | 1 | Rmarkdown Rstudio Projects/Reproducibility Finding Help |
LAST CLASS BEFORE DROP DATE (28 August) Assign Homework #1 |
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| 8/29/2016 | 2 | 2 | Binary and unary operators Object classes Interpreted and Compiled languages |
R4DS: 13, 14, 16, 11, 12 | |
| 8/31/2016 | 2 | 2 | Indexing lists, matrices, arrays, and data frames Functional and Literate Programming |
Homework #1 Due Assign Homework #2 |
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| 9/5/2016 | 3 | NA | LABOR DAY - NO CLASS | ||
| 9/7/2016 | 3 | 2 | Matrix operations | Homework #2 Due Assign Homework #3 Assign Midterm Exam #1 |
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| 9/12/2016 | 4 | 3 | if, for, while, repeat, break part 1 | R4DS: 17.1 - 17.4 | |
| 9/14/2016 | 4 | 3 | if, for, while, repeat, break part 2 ifelse |
Homework #3 Due Assign Homework #4 |
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| 9/19/2016 | 5 | 4 | function writing I: constructing functions | R4DS: 15 | |
| 9/21/2016 | 5 | 4 | function writing II: argument checks Intro to dots. |
Homework #4 Due Assign Homework #5 |
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| 9/26/2016 | 6 | 4 | apply Functions I: apply, lapply, sapply |
R4DS: 17.5 - 17.9 | |
| 9/28/2016 | 6 | 4 | apply Functions II: mapply |
Homework #5 Due Assign Homework #6 |
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| 10/3/2016 | 7 | 5 | Data Management I: Basic transformations | R4DS: 6, 7, 9, 10 | |
| 10/5/2016 | 7 | 5 | Data Management II: Dates and Strings | Homework #6 Due Assign Homework #7 |
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| 10/10/2016 | 8 | NA | EXAM WEEK NO CLASS | ||
| 10/12/2016 | 8 | 5 | Exploratory Data Analysis Graphing |
Midterm #1 Due | R4DS: 2-5 |
| 10/17/2016 | 9 | NA | FALL BREAK - NO CLASS | ||
| 10/19/2016 | 9 | 6 | Confidence Intervals Basic Hypothesis Testing (t.test, chisq.test, fisher.test) |
Assign Midterm Exam #2 | |
| 10/24/2016 | 10 | 6 | Linear Regression and ANOVA Model Diagnostics |
Homework #7 Due Assign Homework #8 |
R4DS: 19-23 |
| 10/26/2016 | 10 | 6 | Linear Regression and ANOVA Model Diagnostics |
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| 10/31/2016 | 11 | 6 | Ridge Regression | ||
| 11/2/2016 | 11 | 6 | Logistic Regression | Homework #8 Due Assign Homework #9 |
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| 11/7/2016 | 12 | 6 | Survival Analysis (Semi-parametric) | ||
| 11/9/2016 | 12 | 6 | Survival Analysis (Parametric) (time permitting) | ||
| 11/14/2016 | 13 | 6 | Information Criteria Likelihood Ratio Tests Cross Validation |
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| 11/16/2016 | 13 | 6 | Random Forest | Homework #9 Due | |
| 11/21/2016 | 14 | 6 | In Class Exam | Midterm #2 Due Assign Final Exam |
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| 11/23/2016 | 14 | NA | THANKSGIVING BREAK - NO CLASS | ||
| 11/28/2016 | 15 | 7 | Random Number Generation Simulation: Sample Size Estimation |
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| 11/30/2016 | 15 | 7 | Sample Size Simulation | ||
| 12/5/2016 | 16 | 8 | Writing Packages (time permitting) | ||
| 12/7/2016 | 16 | 8 | Writing Packages (time permitting) | ||
| 12/12/2016 | NA | NA | Help session for final projects | IN CLASS QUIZ | |
| 12/14/2016 | NA | NA | FINAL EXAM DUE |