Dec 07, 2025  
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REN R 581 - Introduction to Exploratory Data Analysis


Course Career Graduate
Units 1
Approved Hours 1-0-1
Fee index 2
Faculty Agric, Life & Environ Sciences
Department Renewable Resources
Typically Offered first term

Description
Methods for exploring, analyzing and presenting data. Data organization, outlier identification, transformations. Data displays for grouped, bivariate, and time series data. Summary statistics for parametric and non-parametric data. Concept of standard errors and confidence intervals. Design of scientific tables, two-way tables. Participants learn how to generate publication-quality graphs and tables with open-source software packages.