Distributions and uncertainty

Materials for class on Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Contents

Slides

Download the slides from today’s lecture.

Code

Download the R Markdown code that we created in class.

Working with R and R Markdown

• Creating an RStudio project
• Writing in Markdown (play with Markdown).⊕ Remember to check out the list of Markdown resources.
  
  
• Converting Markdown files to other formats
• Literate programming and R Markdown
• Loading data
• Working with data frames using dplyr
• Basic plotting and saving (ggplot2 documentation)

Visualizing distributions and uncertainty

• Summary statistics
• Histograms
• Density plots
  • Ridge plots (née joy plots)⊕ See some great ridgeplots.
    
    
• Box plots
• Violin plots
• Bar plots and error bars

Feedback for today

Go to this form and answer these three questions (anonymously if you want):

1. What new thing did you learn today?
2. What was the most unclear thing about today?
3. What was the most exciting thing you learned today?