STAT 02311 & STAT 02511 | 2026 Fall

Introduction to Statistical Computing
& Statistical Computing

Course information

This is a cross-listed undergraduate/graduate course on statistical computing.

Instructor Man Cheung Tsui
Email tsui@rowan.edu
Office Robinson Hall Room 228B
Office Hours Mondays 2PM–3PM
Tuesdays 12PM–1:50PM
Wednesdays 2PM–3PM
Course Meets Mondays & Wednesdays 5PM–6:15PM in Discovery 414
(Bring laptop to each class to run R/SAS.)
Syllabus & Grades See Canvas for STAT 2311
See Canvas for STAT 2511

Course schedule

Schedule Notes & Assignment
Base R
1 - Vectors
Assignment
Base R
2 - Data frames
Colab Lesson
Assignment
Base R
3 - Extended example
Colab Lesson
Continue Assignment
Tidyverse
4 - dplyr
Colab Lesson
See Canvas for full assignment details:
- Redo Day 2 Assignment in dplyr
- Install R & (RStudio or VS Code) & Quarto
Interactive Visualizations
5 - Quarto
Lesson slides
Lesson .qmd file
Assignment
Interactive Visualizations
6 - ggplot2, plotly, htmlwidgets, crosstalk
Lesson demo
Lesson .qmd file
Assignment
Solutions
More R
7 - Theoretical transformations
Lesson slides
Assignment
More R
8 - Continued
Lesson slides
Exam 1 Practice
Exam 1 Practice Solutions
SAS
9 - Reading files
Lesson slides
Assignment
Exam 1
Wednesday, October 7, 2026
SAS
10 - PROCs
Lesson slides
Assignment
TBD
TBD
Exam 2
Wednesday, November 25, 2026
TBD
TBD
Final Exam:
Monday, December 14, 2026
at 5PM–7PM