MAT013 - Advanced Use of Statistical Packages Catalogue Entry
The analyses of large and raw data sets quite often require complex
manipulation before an analysis. Moreover, the large data sets are often
multivariate by nature and require a number of different types of analyses
to be performed using derived variables from the data set. The course will
teach techniques that will allow the efficient manipulation and analysis of
data.
This module aims to teach a set of programming techniques that will allow
the student to use two popular statistical packages to efficiently
manipulate and analyse complex data. This module will build on the SAS
knowledge acquired in MAT004 Computational Methods and introduce students to the open source package R.
