About

This repository holds the course materials for the Spring 2017 edition of:

• Stat 20 Introduction to Probability and Statistics at UC Berkeley.
• Stat 131A Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Life Scientists at UC Berkeley.

Contents

• Syllabus: Course logistics and policies.
• Lectures: Calendar of weekly topics, and lectures material.
• HW Assignments: Weekly assignments.
• Labs: Topics from textbook for lab.
• Scripts: Tutorial R scripts.
• Apps: Shiny apps used in lecture's demos.
• Data: Data sets.
• Other: Other resources (e.g. tables, articles).

R and RStudio

We will use the statistical software R and the IDE RStudio as a computational tool to practice and apply the key concepts of the course.

Both R and RStudio are free, and are available for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.

To install R (Binary version):

• Mac: https://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/macosx/
• Windows: https://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/windows/

To install RStudio (free desktop version):

• RStudio Desktop version https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/

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License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Author: Gaston Sanchez