Department of Statistics, University of Dhaka, has been offering both theory and practical courses on R/RStudio for its undergraduate and graduate students since 2008. The department has also opened up scopes of hands-on training program on R/RStudio for researchers, consultants and students on a regular basis.
Why learn R/RStudio?
The interest of learning R programming is growing rapidly among the scientific communities as R is:
- Free and open-source language. You can modify existing packages to make your own packages.
- Language having large number of built-in packages for the users.
- Compatible with any operating system.
- Widely used in almost every field such as Data Science, Banking, Finance, Medicine etc.
- Very popular for publishable quality graphics.
- Maintained and updated by vast community of researchers.
Why choose Department of Statistics to learn R/RStudio?
The Department of Statistics is well-equipped with many resources such as:
- 2 air-conditioned labs having more than 100 modern computers.
- Faculty members having profound knowledge in R/RStudio.
- High quality course materials
- Skilled lab attendants for continuous support during training
Course contents:
- Introduction to Statistics and R/RStudio
- Introducing arithmetic operators, logical expression, common functions, vector and matrix operations
- Writing your own functions
- Using conditional statements such as Do Loops, IF, For and While
- Familiarizing with built-in packages
- Data management in R
- Probability distributions in R
- Data visualization
- Descriptive statistics
- Correlation and regression analysis
- Test of hypothesis
- ANOVA
- Factor analysis
- Discriminant and classification
- Survival analysis
Who can participate?
- Professionals and/or students from any discipline with strong interest in learning R/RStudio.
- Participants should have basic knowledge of computer literacy.
Proposed Program Schedule
- Twice a year
- Duration of the program: 5 weeks
- Number of classes: 20 classes
- Class time: 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Friday and Saturday) including refreshment and prayer break
Registration Fees: Tk. 15,000/= (Professionals), Tk. 12,000/= (Students)
Application Form and Brochure:
completion of the R/RStudio training program, participant will get a certificate.
For more details, please contact Mr. Sheikh Jamirul Islam, Senior Administrative Officer, Department of Statistics, University of Dhaka. Room No. 409, Qazi Motahar Husain Building, Phone: +8809666911463 Extension 7191 (Office), Mobile: +88 01715669201, Email:jamiruldu@gmail.com