Workshop: software tools for statistics

The course aims to train students to manage theoretical and modern computational tools of statistics, by analyzing simulated and real data sets. We introduce and use the open source R software, which is the state-of-art in the scientific community and widely used in many industrial and commercial environments. Students will improve their computing and modelling abilities as well as their probem solving attitudes.

The student will be able to perform a simple statistical data analysis and to produce reports, using the R software. S/he shall have acquired the ability to use basic R tools and to extract relevant information from the available data, still keeping the consciousness of the uncertainty of the results.