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• Mar. 6 - Apr. 3, 2009 Introduction to Data Mining, taught by Dr. Anthony Babinec, President of AB Analytics.

• Apr. 3 - May 1, 2009 Statistical Analysis of Microarray Data with R, taught by Dr. Shailaja Deshmukh and Dr. Sudha Purohit, both of University of Pune, India.

• Apr. 24 - May. 22, 2009 Logistic Regression, taught by Dr. Joseph Hilbe, University of Hawaii.

• May 1 - June 5, 2009 Graphics in R, taught by Dr. Paul Murrell who has been a member of the core development team for R since 1999. He is the past Chair of the Section for Statistical Graphics of the American Statistical Association, and has recently served as Editor-inChief of R News, the newsletter of the R project, and is an Associate Editor for Computational Statistics and The Journal of Statistical Software.

• May 29 - June 26, 2009 Modeling in R, taught by Dr. Sudha Purohit, who, prior to her retirement in 2000, was head of the Department of Statistics at A.G. College, Pune, India. She is co-author of Statistics Using R, Microarray Data: Statistical Analysis Using R, and several other texts in statistics.

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