Brenton Kenkel — Teaching

In Spring 2012, I am teaching the introduction to R for first-year Ph.D. students on behalf of the Star Lab. Course materials are available below.

Previous teaching experience:

Fall 2011: TA for Probability and Inference, PSC 404 (graduate), with Kevin Clarke (syllabus)
Summer 2011: Instructor of the "math pre-fresher" for incoming Ph.D. students in the political science department at Rochester. Course materials available on request.
Spring 2011: TA for Political Inquiry, PSC 201, with Kevin Clarke (syllabus)
Fall 2010: TA for Mathematical Modeling, PSC 407 (graduate), with John Duggan (syllabus)
Spring 2010: TA for Introductory Statistical Methods, PSC 205, with Curt Signorino (syllabus)

Full set (updated 2012-02-17)
Chapter 0: Course Mechanics (2012-01-20)
Chapter 1: Basics of R (updated 2012-01-25)
Chapter 2: Matrices (2012-02-03)
Chapter 3: Data Frames (2012-02-03)
Chapter 4: Plots (2012-02-17)
Chapter 5: Linear Regression (2012-02-17)

Set 1: Basics of R (2012-01-20)
Set 1 solutions (2012-01-27)
Set 2: Matrices and Data Frames (2012-02-03)
Set 2 solutions (2012-02-14)
Set 3: Plots and Regression (2012-02-17)