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statistics colloquium

Event Type: 
Colloquium
Speaker: 
Dr. Erik Erhardt
Event Date: 
Friday, April 8, 2016 -
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
SMLC120
Audience: 
General PublicFaculty/StaffStudentsAlumni/Friends
Sponsor/s: 
Stats group

Event Description: 

Title: Reproducible research with R and knitr

 Abstract:
 A minimal standard for data analysis and other scientific computations
 is that they be reproducible: that the code and data are assembled in a way so
that another group can recreate all of the results (e.g., the figures in
a paper). The importance of such reproducibility is now widely recognized,
but it is still not so widely practiced as it should be, in large part
because many computational scientists (and particularly statisticians)
have not fully adopted the required tools for reproducible research.
In this talk, we will discuss general principles for reproducible research
but will focus primarily on the use of two relevant tools, knitr and R (a
substantial update to Sweave and S), with the goal that you can ensure
that all aspects of your future computational research (software, data analyses,
papers, presentations, posters) are reproducible.

Event Contact

Contact Name: Yan Lu

Contact Phone: 5052772544

Contact Email: luyan@math.unm.edu