Introduction to Regression and Data Science

This course introduces data analysis through statistical computing in R, least-squares and logistic regression, model selection, and data visualization.

Teaching team and office hours

Instructor Dr. Lucy D’Agostino McGowan

mcgowald@wfu.edu

Bookable Manchester 342
TA

Lynn Li

liy921@wfu.edu

Math & Stats Center   MW 7-9pm (Manc 125) and By appointment


Tribble A306


M/W 2:00p-3:15p

Texts

The main text book is: Stat 2: Building Models for a World of Data by Cannon, Cobb, Hartlaub, Legler, Lock, Moore, Rossman, Witmer. Please feel free to purchase a used copy of this book. We will supplement this with text freely available online: R for Data Science by Grolemund, Wickham OpenIntro Statistics by Diez, Barr, Çetinkaya-Rundel.

Materials

This class is very hands on; be sure to bring a fully charged laptop to every class.