Lecture 2
LISAM. Statistical software.
LISAM
What is LISAM? Social network for
 Creating personal pages
 Creating courses
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Storing course materials (lectures, documents, useful links)
Publishing assignments to certain student groups (labs,
project work)
Uploading and submitting solutions to assignments
electronically
Correcting and grading the solutions
Communication between students and teacher
http://lisam.liu.se
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How it looks like when you logon
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Panels
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Menu
Newsfeed: you find comments from people and courses
you have chosen to follow
Messages: important information from
teachers/administrators in your courses.
Important menus:
 About me (edit the profile, set the default language)
 My courses: See all courses that you registered yourself
for.
 About LISAM help information
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If the webpage is in Swedish
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About meEdit your profile
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Accessing a course
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Mina kurser/ My courses
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Course structure
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Course structure
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Syllabus: compressed information about the course, teaching,
examination and admission requirements
Course documents: basic course material: lectures, files
(uploaded by teacher)
Collaborative workspace: teachers and students can publish
files there and make comments
Newsfeed: Teachers and students may start a conversation
there
Announcements: information from teacher
Timetable: link to schedule in TimeEdit
Submissions: Here you may find your labs/assignments and
submit the answer
Assessment record: The overview of your grades
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Course menus
Note that each lab/assignment has a deadline
and an end date
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Submit a report
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Statistical and data mining software
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Commerical
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SAS
Minitab
SPSS
Matlab
Microsoft SQL Server
Free of charge:
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R
WinBugs
Python
GGobi
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SAS
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SAS
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Basic Module
SAS Enterprise Guide
SAS JMP
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SAS
proc import datafile=’C:\Customers.xlsx' dbms=xlsx
out=Customers;
sheet='Sheet1';
run;
Learn:
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How SAS is started
What is Library
What's in the Editor, Output, Log
What's in the Results
How to create a library
How to import XLS document to the library
Note data material (Column attributes)
Write a simple computer program and save the file
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proc. gplot data = sashelp.class;
plot height * weight;
run;
Run the program
Sas file upload.
Help (contents, index, search, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/STAT)
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Minitab
Learn:
 Import data
 Look through the menus
 Run regression
 Make a plot
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R
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R is a real computer language with full flexibility
Constantly increasing amount of packages (new
research)
Free of charge
Website: http://www.r-project.org/
Code Editor: http://rstudio.org/
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Software: use RStudio
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Install R: http://www.r-project.org/
Install RStudio: http://rstudio.org/
Workspace
Program
Plots
Execution
console
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Basics in RStudio
Important to know:
 Create a new file and save it (File menu)
 Running one line or entire code (Edit menu)
 Running one line in console
 Workspace (Observe, Save, Clear)
 Setting current directory (Tools)
 Installing new package (Packages tabs)
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Call help
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Specific function
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Help browser
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args(function)
Examples of how to use function:
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help.search(“expression”)
Quick reminder of function arguments:
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help.start()
Search for something in help
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help(function)
example(function)
If some method is not installed on the computer:
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RSiteSearch(”expression")
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Introduction
R is case-sensitive (A and a)
 Each command on a new line
 Comment:
#R is a very cool language!
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Initialize/set the variable
Use-> or <a<-3
3->b
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Vectors
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Create a vector
x<-c(1,3)
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See the result
x
print(x)
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Sequence
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Either‘: ‘ or seq()
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Matrices
Use matrix()
a<-matrix(values,nrow=m,ncol=n)
Values should be listed columnvise
nrow= and ncol= can be skipped
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Index
Positive index
x[1,6]
x[2:10]
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Negative index
x[-(1:5)]
all except 1:5
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Entire column or row
x[2,] entire column 2
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Data frame
Vectors and matrices of the row length can be collected into
a data frame
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Used to store the data of different types into a single
table
Use data.frame(object 1, object 2, … , object k)
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Data frame
Any object in the data frame can be retrieved by
dataframe$object
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Read data from Excel file
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Save as ”comma-separated file”(csv)
Use
Dataframe<-read.csv2(file_name)
Exercise:
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Use Excel file Airlines.xls and import it to R
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Conditioning and loops
If (x==3) {
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} else {
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for (i in 2:99) {
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while(x!=29) {
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Loops
for (name
{
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in expr1 )
while (condition)
{
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Writing your own functions
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Function writing
must always end
with writing the
value which
should be
returned!
You may also
use
”return(value)” to
show what value
the function
should return
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