Web resources for Day 1 of the Boot Camp

General

Check the BCSS website for practical details. Look for the link to the materials for the Boot Camp in the top-right corner.

Mike Meredith’s web site has information on a few special topics.

Binomial distribution

The Khan Academy binomial page has a series of videos.

Rather more academic in tone is the StatTrek page.

And of course there’s Wikipedia.

Poisson distribution

There’s a nice biography of Poisson at the St Andrews University site.

Khan Academy relates the theory of the Poisson process to the binomial distribution.

There are also pages at StatTrek and Wikipedia.

R software

There are lots of resources on the web for learning R. Here are a couple of thorough introductions:

• Learn R From Scratch is a series of screencasts showing R operations.
• DataCamp course is a free course with tutorials interspersed with exercises.

Here are two tutorials that have something to say about using R on Macs:

• Bill King’s tutorial at Coastal Carolina U.
• Using R for Windows and Macintosh from Stanford.

For trouble-shooting, the best strategy is to copy-paste the most informative bit of the error message into a search engine. Look for hits in StackOverflow or StackExchange, which are much more user-friendy than the R-help forum, still operating as an email list.

Please let us know if any of these links does not work.