Class Information

Class notes for Math 154 at Pomona College: Computational Statistics. The notes are based extensively on An Introduction to Statistical Learning (James et al. 2021) by James, Witten, Hastie, and Tibshiran; Modern Data Science (Baumer, Kaplan, and Horton 2021) with R by Baumer, Kaplan, and Horton; Data Science in R: A Case Studies Approach to Computational Reasoning and Problem Solving (Nolan and Temple Lang 2015) by Nolan and Temple Lang; and Visual and Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions (Tufte 1997) by Tufte. The computing part of the class will be taken from R for Data Science (Wickham and Grolemund 2017) by Wickham and Grolemund as well as Tidy Modeling with R (Kuhn and Silge 2021) by Kuhn and Silge.

You are responsible for reading the relevant chapters in the text. The texts are very good & readable, so you should use them. You should make sure you are coming to class and also reading the materials associated with the activities.