Tutorials


The tutorials are brief non-technical introductions to technical topics.

Many of the tutorials involve R. R is a free, open-source environment for data analysis, graphics and more. It is a version of the S language. The website of the R Project is http://www.r-project.org

Computing

A Guide for the Unwilling S User (pdf)

An Introduction to the S Language (html)

R Relative to Statistical Packages (pdf)
This is a comment on a technical report from the UCLA statistical consulting group at http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/technicalreports/

Spreadsheet Addiction (html)

The Statistical Bootstrap and Other Resampling Methods (html)


Data-driven Introductions to R

R for the Superbowl (html)

R for the Technical Analysis Challenge (html)


Optimization

An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms (html)


Last Modified: 2007 October 06