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