3-days workshop on

Statistical Data Analysis using R

An Introduction

Discovering One of the Most Powerful and Comprehensive Statistical Tool on the Planet and Yet Cost Nothing to You
Now Included Popular Requested Topics Import Data from SPSS, SAS, Minitab and Excel Statistical Analysis using R with Database R Spatial Data Display with Google Map Statistical Process Control with R

Date Venue Time

: 19-21 Nov 2012 (Mon-Wed) : Kompleks Eureka, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang : 9am 5pm

3rd Year
R workshop held in USM

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This program is for you if you are engineer, statistician, scientist and researcher, post-graduate student in commercial or government institutions who is looking for a powerful and flexible tool for your statistical data analysis. Managers and decision maker who is considering to deploy a cost effective software into your organization as alternative to SAS, SPSS, Minitab, Statistica, Stat, JMP and other commercial statistical software. Our previous participants who has directly benefit from this workshop are from the field of biology, ecology, economy, engineering, environmental, financial, manufacturing, medical, natural resources who has the need for data analysis but with minimum computer skills and no prior knowledge in R.

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PAST PARTICIPANTS
The participants who had attend this R workshop were Paediatrician, Civil Engineer, Factory Manager, Process Engineer, Product Engineer, Yield Engineer, Quality Engineer, R&D Engineer, Principle Engineer, Structural and Material Engineer, Actuaries, Biologist, Biotechnologist, Counsellor, Economist, Educationist, Environmentalist, Food Scientist, Forestry Researcher, Genetics Scientist, Logistic Planner, Linguistic, Mathematician, Road Safety Researcher, Software Developer, Statistician, Plant Breeder and postgraduate students. These participants were from Canberra Hospital of Australia, Intel, AMD, Agilent, Spansion, IRE-Tex, Sime Darby, Pelabuhan Tanjung Pelepas, KL Kepong, Pantai Hospital, Advanced Medical and Dental Institute (AMDI), Pertubuhan Keselamatan Sosial (PERKESO), Tropical Peat Research Laboratory, Institut Penyelidikan dan Kemajuan Pertanian Malaysia (MARDI), Institute of Tropical Forestry and Forest Products (INTROP), Centre of Drug Research, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Universiti Teknologi Mara, Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Universiti Tun Hussein On Malaysia, Universiti Kuala Lumpur Malaysian Spanish Institute, Universiti Tun Abdul Razak, Kolej Han Chiang, The University of Nottingham Malaysia, University of Bristol and Texas Technology University.

INTRODUCTION
Today, the R is one of the fastest growing statistical computing software and is a direct competitor to SAS, SPSS, Minitab, Stat and others established statistical software. The SPSS founder, who also started a R software company, Dr Norman Nie, during one of the interview, simply put that R as one the most powerful statistical computing language on the planet and there is no statistical equation that cannot be calculated in R. R is a software environment for statistical computing and graphics that can run on UNIX, Linux, Windows and Macintosh platforms. The R software originated from AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1984 and currently administrated by the R Foundation, based in Austria. The foundation is a non-profit organization working in the public interest and has the charter to advance the R to provide a free and open source software environment. There are hundreds of institutions of higher learning, research institutions and companies around the world such as AT&T, Google, Merck, Shell, Stanford University, John Hopkins University and others support the R Foundation initiative. The R has huge support from the communities, and in fact it has earned the reputation to has the latest and most sophisticated statistical algorithm that is developed by professor of statistics and mathematics.

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
The R is a mature and complete software tool that provides a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques for parameter and non parameter methods, linear and nonlinear modelling, statistical tests, time series analysis, classification, clustering and many more specialize statistical analysis. It has a history of more than 25 years and like any other powerful and useful software available freely, the adoption rate is accelerating, hundreds of website is related to R and thousands of articles on R release each year. The R Foundation alone has published a list close to 100 reference books related to R and Amazon.com carried more than 100 titles related to use of R for statistical analysis. The R standard configuration has more than 25 packages consisting of statistical models, mathematical functions, graphics devices, routine to communicate with external application like web server, databases and other common application like MS Excel, SPSS, SAS, Minitab and others. There are also more than 2,423 excellent add-on packages developed by the statistical communities around the world, readily for download to extend the functionality of R. As with most of the new users to R, you typically face with overloaded of information on R and need assistant to start using it. For this reason, the objective of this program is to help you by dissecting the R into simple to understand and guide you to use the R in a productive manner at the shortest possible time. Anyone who has the need for data analysis with minimum computer skills but with no knowledge on R will directly benefit from this program.

There are very few things that SAS or SPSS will do that R cannot, while R can do a wide range of things that the others cannot
Robert Muenchen, Author, R for SAS and SPSS Users

HANDS-ON WORKSHOP
This program emphasis on hands-on practices and required the participants to have their own laptop computer to fully take advantage of the learning. All the necessary software will be provided during the training and the course facilitator will guide the participant to install and configure the system prior and or on the workshop days. The participant laptop will need to meet the minimum requirement as below: Windows XP/SP3, Vista/SP2 or Win 7 SP1 Min 1GB of RAM Min 500MB free space hard disk Wireless network connection capable 1 USB free slot and 1GB of thumb drive

PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Day 1 9:00am : Introduction to R Tea break Getting Start with R 12:00pm : Lunch provided 1:00pm : R with Menu System Tea break More R Graphic User Interfaces 5:00pm : End Day 2 9:00am : R in Native Mode Tea break Univariate Analysis with R 12:00pm : Lunch provided 1:00pm : Bivariate Analysis with R Tea break Multivariate Analysis with R R Data Import and Export 5:00pm : End

Please contact the course facilitator if any of the participants system does not meet any one of above requirements.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
The workshop is held three times per calendar year, typically on Mar, Jun and Nov. The current scheduled workshop date is printed in the front page of this brochure and to inquire future workshop date please sends us an email. The workshop is very popular and normally over-booked; please make your registration earlier using the form at the end of this brochure and take advantage of the early bird discount.

Day 3 9:00am : R Statistical with Database Tea break R Spatial Data with Google Maps 12:00pm : Lunch provided 1:00pm : R Statistical Process Control Tea break More R Features Programming with R 5:00pm : End

IN-HOUSE WORKSHOP
If you have a team of people who need to attend this workshop, it is more cost effective to have this program customized to your organization at your location. Saving can be significant! Please contact us for more detail.

ADVANCE PROGRAMS
If you also require advance training on R such as below, please contact us for detail and tentative schedule. Multiple Linear Regression using R Data Mining using R Statistical Graphic with R Programming in R

ENQUIRIES
Registration and Others KHAIROL ANUAR HAZIR MOHAMMED USAINS Holding Sdn Bhd +60 (4) 653-4372/+60(12) 286-9048 khairol@usainsgroup.com khairol_usains@yahoo.com Technical Details CW CHANG AHP Products +60 (12) 429-3381 cwchang@ahp-products.com

COURSE FACILITATOR
CW CHANG is a technical consultant specialized in applying statistical and quantitative methods for quality and management decision making. His company developed data information product using GNC C/C++, PHP/JavaScript, Ajax, R, MySQL, Apache and other Open Software Foundations software for Agilent, Osram, YTL and Inventec. The company also collaborates with the commercial unit of the University Science of Malaysia (USM) and the center of excellent of the Northern Corridor Implementation Authority (NCIA) to conducted public courses on statistical analysis using open source software, reliability engineering technique for product quality improvement and microscopic surface analysis techniques. The course participants were from MNC, commercial, research institution and universities in the field of agriecological, bioscience, civil engineering, drug research, ecology, econometrics, education, environmental, forestry, mathematical sciences, medical and health, oil and gas, product packaging, semiconductor, software development, structural and material engineering and telecommunication. He has close to 20 years of industry experiences include as the senior product manager for a leading online company in South Asia, and Head of IT for a largest MNC opto-electronic manufacturer. He has a long and distinctive career with Intel Corporation where he managed a global disperse team that responsible for the mission critical system support for Intels worldwide manufacturing facilities in the United States, Ireland, Costa Rica, China, Philippines and Malaysia. He was a Commonwealth Scholar with a postgraduate degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Sussex. He obtained his bachelor degree from University Technology of Malaysia with His Majesty Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysias Royal Award, recipient of the Tunku Abdul Rahman Foundations Gold Medal Award and a Malaysian Government scholar.

REGISTRATION FORM
Please identify the workshop to register. Complete the rest of the registration below, fax or send this form to:
Khairol Anuar USAINS Holding Sdn. Bhd., Ground Floor, Kompleks EUREKA, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 USM PENANG. Fax : 04-657 2210, Email : khairol@usainsgroup.com or khairol_usains@yahoo.com Workshop Name Statistical Data Analysis using R: An Introduction Date 19-21 Nov 2012

Participants
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Payment Details The workshop fee is inclusive of course notes, certificate of attendance, lunch and refreshment.
Normal Early Bird Group Discount Students RM1,590 per participant. Discount 10%, payment 6 weeks before workshop date. Discount 20%, min 3 participants from same organization, payment 6 weeks before workshop date. Discount 20%, payment 6 weeks before workshop date. Number Bank Total (RM)

Mode of Payment Crossed Cheque Bank Draft Money Order LO/PO

Payment must be made payable to: USAINS HOLDING SDN. BHD.

Bank Transfer. Please fax the bank-in slip, include your name and details in the slip. Payee Bank: USAINS Holding Sdn. Bhd. Detail: Statistical Data Analysis using R: An Introduction (2012) Bank Name: CIMB Bank Berhad (USM Branch), Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang. Account No: 0709-0006708-05-7
A Local Order (LO) or Purchase Order (PO) must be presented before the event. The organizer reserves the right to refrain a registered participant from taking part in the event if no proof of payment can be presented. This only applies to registered participants who have NOT paid the registration fee PRIOR to the event date. Cancellation and or Substitution All cancelation must be in writing by fax or email at least 10 working days before the event date. A full refund less administration fee of RM500.00 will be given. No refund will be made for late cancelation. However, substitute participants are welcomed at no extra charge provided written notice of at least 5 working days before the event is given to the organizer. Discount Participant is not entitled for early bird discount after the group discount or student discount. No group discount for student. Disclaimer The course facilitator reserved the right to alter the workshop contents or schedule as it deem fit and no further notice will be given. The organizer also reserves the right to reschedule or cancel any part of its published workshop or venue due to unforeseen circumstances and will not accept liability for costs incurred by participants or their organizations for the cancellation of travel arrangements and/or accommodation reservations as a result of the programme being cancelled or postponed. Advance notice will be given if there are such changes or cancellation.

R is the most powerful statistical computing language on the planet; there is no statistical equation that cannot be calculated in R.
Norman Nie, Prof Emeritus of Statistics, University of Chicago, Founder and former CEO of SPSS, and founder of Revolution R