Faculty of Computer Applications

UNIT PLAN

Class: BCA Semester: II

Subject: Statistical Computing and R Programming Code: DS2T2

Course Facilitator: Sandhya Assistant Professor

sandhya@uidcblr.com
Course Goal: After the successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:
 Explore fundamentals of statistical analysis in R environment.
 Describe key terminologies, concepts and techniques
employed in Statistical Analysis.
 Define Calculate, Implement Probability and Probability Distributions
to solve a wide variety of problems.
 Conduct and interpret a variety of Hypothesis Tests to aid Decision Making.
 Understand, Analyze, and Interpret Correlation Probability and
Regression to analyses the underlying relationships between different
variables.
Resources: 1. Tilman M. Davies, “The book of R: A first course in programming
and statistics”, San Francisco, 2016.
2. Vishwas R. Pawgi, “Statistical computing using R software”, Nirali
prakashan publisher, e1 edition, 2022.
3. https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/r-tutorial/
4. https://www.tutorialspoint.com/r/index.htm.
Assessment and
Evaluation: Sl.No Activity Weightage
1. Assignment & Attendance 10
2. Assessment Test 10
Total 20

Assignment Topics: Formative Assessment as per SEP Guidelines

1)Presentations
2) Case Studies

Session Topic Pedagogy / Instructional Date Remarks

No Methodology Materials
Unit 1
1 The Language: Introduction: Practice based Presentation
 Advantages of R over Other
Programming Languages,
 R Studio: R script file,
 Handling Packages in R:
Installing R Package
2  Syntax, Lecture PPT Presentation
 Comments,
 Operators

3  R Keywords Presentation PPT Presentation

4  R Data Types – Lecture PPT Presentation

1. numeric,
2. Integer,
3. logical

 R Data Types – Practice based PPT Presentation

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5 4. complex,
5. character and raw

6  Variables Practice based PPT Presentation

7  Input and Output Practice based PPT Presentation

8  Data Structures – Strings Lecture Presentation

9  Data Structures – Vectors Lecture Presentation

10  Data Structures – Matrices Practice based PPT Presentation

11  Data Structures – Arrays Lecture Presentation

12  Data Structures – Non-numeric Practice based PPT Presentation

Values

13  Data Structures – Lists and Lecture Presentation

Data Frames

14  Special Values, Classes, and Lecture PPT Presentation

Coercion

15  Reading and Writing Files. Lecture Case Studies

16  Class test Question paper

Unit 2
17 Programming: Conditions and Lecture PPT Presentation
Loops
 If statements - Stand-Alone
Statement, Using If Else
18  Nesting and Stacking Lecture
Statements
Session Topic Pedagogy / Instructional Date Remarks
No Methodology Materials

19 Lecture Video
 The Switch Function
Presentation
20  Coding Loops - For Loops, Lecture Video
While Loops, Repeat Loop Presentation

21  Other Control Flow Lecture PPT Presentation

Mechanisms - Declaring Break,
Next and goto statement

22  R-Function: function definition Lecture

23  Built-in functions: Basic Lecture PPT Presentation

Math function - min(), max(),
sum(),
sqrt(),abs(),ceiling(),floor(),
trunc(), round(), cos(), sin(),
tan()
24  Built-in functions: Basic Lecture Video
Math function - min(), max(), Presentation
sum(),
sqrt(),abs(),ceiling(),floor(),
trunc(), round(), cos(), sin(),
tan()
25  String function - Lecture PPT Presentation
grep(), nchar() , paste(),
sprintf(), substr(), strsplit(),
regex() gregexpr(), toupper(),
tolower(), paste()

26  String function - Lecture Video

grep(), nchar() , paste(), Presentation
sprintf(), substr(), strsplit(),
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regex() gregexpr(), toupper(),
tolower(), paste(),

27  String function - Lecture PPT Presentation

grep(), nchar() , paste(),
sprintf(), substr(), strsplit(),
regex() gregexpr(), toupper(),
tolower(), paste()

28  User Defined Function. Practice based PPT Presentation

29  Exception Handling Practice based Discussion

30  Progress and Timing Lecture PPT Presentation

 Visibility

31 Question paper
Class Test

Unit 3
32 Statistics and Probability: Lecture PPT Presentation
Introduction

33  Elementary Statistics Lecture PPT Presentation

34  Basic data visualization Discussion Presentation

35  Probability Practice based Lecture

36  Common probability Practice based

distributions
37  Common probability mass Visual based Lecture
functions
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38  Common probability mass Descriptive PPT Presentation
functions-
Bernoulli

39  Common probability mass Lecture PPT Presentation

functions-
Binomial

40  Common probability mass Practice based PPT Presentation

functions-
Poisson distributions
41  Common probability density Visual based Presentation
functions
42  Common probability density Descriptive PPT Presentation
functions -Uniform
43  Common probability density Lecture PPT Presentation
functions - Normal
44  Common probability density Visual based Presentation
functions -Student’s t-
distribution.
45 Class Test Question paper

Unit 4
46 Lecture PPT Presentation
Statistical Testing and Modelling:
47  Sampling distributions Discussion Video
Presentation
48  Hypothesis testing Discussion PPT Presentation

49 Discussion Video
 Analysis of variance Presentation
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50 Presentation Video
 Simple linear regression
Presentation
51 Presentation Video
 Multiple linear regressions.
Presentation
52 Lecture Video
 Advanced graphics
Presentation
53 Presentation Video
 Basic Plotting
Presentation
54  Plot customization Lecture PPT Presentation

55  Plotting regions and margins Presentation PPT Presentation

56  Point and click coordinate Visual Based PPT Presentation

interaction

57  Customizing traditional R plots Visual Based Video

Presentation
58  Specialized text and label Visual Based PPT Presentation
notation

59  Defining colors and plotting in Visual Based Video

higher dimensions. Presentation

60 Class Test Question paper

Faculty
Sandhya M HOD- Computer Applications Principal