
Introduction
This introduction to R is intended as course material to be used in a concise course or for
self-instruction. The course is for students with basic knowledge of stochastics. Notions
like distribution function, quantile, expected value and variance are presupposed, as
well as some familiarity with statistical features corresponding to these notions. Only a
condensed summary is included here. Classical distributions, such as binomial, uniform,
and Gaussian should be familiar, together with derived distributions and their asymp-
totic behaviour. An in-depth knowledge of statistics is not required. However, while this
course does cover muc ...