guides

Paul Johnson's Guides And Lecture Notes

Introduction

This directory is the top level in my "guides" collection that is now maintained in Git, the version management system. The folders are hierarchically organized. Since 2013, some of my guide material is only on the main CRMDA guide pages. When updates move from here to there, I leave a pointer, as you see in the KU LaTeX Dissertation page.

Take What You Want (its Copylefted)

pdf files are generally output from LaTeX documents, which are also included in the same directory. It is fine with me if teachers or students download this material and use it in any way they want to, including the possibility of revising and updating the documents themselves. I am retaining copyrights, I am offering this under the GNU Free Documentation License, version 1.3 or greater. As far as I understand it, this means others can take my words and use them however they want, revised or not (with attribution) as long as they do not try to block other down stream users from having the same access.

New Feature

In 2017, I decided to adopt the display framework called h5ai for these guides. There is a search icon at the top, and the config menu top left gives viewer some choices on how this is displayed.

The Main Sections

1. Statistics(aka "stat")

   Regression, math, distributions. By far the best lectures are on Regression models. This is by far the best: multicollinearity. But some of the other ones are OK too :)

2. Rcourse

   The R program and language for statistics. There are separate lectures on data management, plotting, and statistical analysis.

3. Computing Howto.

   How to use Linux, the "command line interface", LaTeX/LyX, or Subversion. I wrote the LaTeX template for MA and Doctoral theses at KU in 2011, and my newest version should always be there.

4. Write Programs in C or Java.

Terminology: What is a "guide" and what is a "lecture"

guide: Essay format. These are easier to prepare. Most first efforts are in this format.

lecture: Slides! I should have called this slides. I may start renaming files. There will be the source code for the slides (file extensions: tex, lyx, Rnw, Snw) as well as pdf produced from that.

If these documents help you learn something, send me an "atta boy" at pauljohn at ku dot edu. If you spot mistakes, notify me as well. That happened (only once)

2017-08-30