Chapter 1 Preface

1.1 How to use this document

These notes are published in bookdown format which enables easy creation of longform documents (using a mixture of markdown, R, and for these notes specifically, Stata’s dyndoc, which was added in Stata 15).

The table of contents is found on the left hand side, with subsections expanding below the current section. At the top of the page are three icons, from left to right they 1) Hide/show the table of contents, 2) Search this document, and 3) Change the font the book is displayed in.

All images should link to full-size versions to see detail if needed.

1.2 Contact information

1.2.1 CSCAR

Office Hours: Monday-Friday 9am to 5pm (Closed Tuesday 12-1pm)
Phone: 734.764.7828
Statistical Assistance: stats-consulting@umich.edu
Data Science Assistance: ds-consulting@umich.edu
High Performance Computing: hpc-consulting@umich.edu
http://cscar.research.umich.edu/

1.2.2 Author

Josh Errickson
3550 Rackham Building
915 E. Washington Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070
Email: jerrick@umich.edu

1.3 Usage

This material was created for use in workshops and short courses presented by faculty and staff from the Consulting for Statistics, Computing & Analytics Research (CSCAR) at the University of Michigan. No part of this material may be used for other purposes, copied, changed, or sold.