R help - Apr 2012 - R Programming Workshops with Bill Venables, June 18-19 at MU in Milwaukee, WI

The Milwaukee Chapter of the ASA (MILWASA) in cooperation
with The Medical College of Wisconsin,
Marquette University,
The Children's Research Institute,
The Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI)
and Quantitative Health Sciences
are proud to announce

R Programming Workshops with Bill Venables
Senior Statistician with CSIRO
http://www.csiro.au/Organisation-Structure/Divisions/Mathematics-Informatics-and-Statistics/BillVenables.aspx

June 18-19, 2012 at Marquette University

Registration due by June 11
Lunch will be provided
$100 single day
$150 both days
$100 both days/students
$10/day late fee after June 11

Registration can be paid by credit card, cash, or check
Please contact Cindy Feltz
Quantitative Health Sciences at
(414) 955-7675 or cfeltz at mcw.edu
for more payment information

The internationally renowned statistician Bill Venables will offer two
workshops. The curriculum is a gentle survey of modern data analysis,
graphics, and statistical modeling in the style of Modern Applied
Statistics with S, Venables' classic textbook with co-author Brian
Ripley. The course will include developments both in R and statistics
since the latest edition.

Day 1: Will cover more elementary material on practical aspects of
using R for data analysis and modeling

Day 2: will be a more advanced workshop on R programming

Dr. Venables is a Senior Statistician with CSIRO, the Commonwealth
Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation: Australia's national
science agency; one of the largest and most diverse research agencies
in the world. An internationally renowned statistician, Dr. Venables
has contributed significantly to experimental design, theoretical
statistics and statistical computation.

Dr. Venables is highly regarded in the international statistical
community for his expertise with the statistical software packages S,
S-PLUS and R. He is co-author of an Introduction to R:
<http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.pdf>. His books Modern
Applied Statistics with S and S Programming, written with Dr. Brian
Ripley of the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, have become
standard references.

Dr. Venables joined CSIRO in 1999 as a Senior Research
Scientist. During his career he has worked with researchers from a
range of disciplines including agriculture, wild life, medicine,
ecology, weather and climate. Prior to joining CSIRO, Dr. Venables was
a senior lecturer in Statistics and Head of the Department of
Statistics at the University of Adelaide, South Australia.

http://www.amstat.org/chapters/milwaukee/#R-Workshop