Syllabus
Unit 1
Overview of R software, Introduction to R Studio: R command Prompt, R script file, Handling Packages in R: Installing a R Package, Basic commands to get started and Special functions , Data Types, Vectors, Lists, Matrices, Arrays, Factors, String functions , Data Frame , Loading and handling Data in R, Writing into a CSV File and Reading from Excel file. (24 Hrs)
Unit 2
Descriptive Statistics: Data Range, Frequencies, Mode, Mean and Median, variance, Standard Deviation, Data Visualization Using R- Pie Charts, R Histograms Density Plot , Bar Charts, Line Chart, Scatterplot, Box Plot, drawing line, circle, rectangle and triangle .Classification and Tabulation of Data , Diagrammatic and Graphic representation of data, Measure of central tendency or averages, Measure of dispersion, Skewness and Kurtosis. (18 Hrs)
Unit 3
Statistical Analysis Using R : Standard discrete distributions – Binomial, Poisson, Uniform, Geometric distributions, Standard continuous distributions – Uniform, Exponential and Normal distributions, Correlation and Regression . Case studies related logistic and supply chain management. (18 Hrs)
Text Books / References
Text books / Reference Books
- Norman Matloff : The Art of R Programming, Norman Matloff, Cengage Learning: Efficient R Programming: A tool of statistical software design , First edition, No Starch Press, 2011.
- Jared P. Lander , : R for Everyone: Advanced Analytics and Graphics, Second Edition, Pearson Education
- Hadley Wickham and Garrett Gorlemund : R for Data Science, First edition, O’Reilly
- Winston Chang : R Graphics Cookbook: Practical Recipes for Visualizing Data, Second Edition , Shroff/O’Reilly
- Nina Zumel and John Mount : Practical Data Science with R, Dream tech Press/Manning Publications.