A simple introduction to programming and statistics with decision trees in R.

Summary: University students in other disciplines without prior knowledge in statistics and/or programming language are introduced to the statistical method of decision trees in the programming language R during a 45‐minute teaching and practice session. Statistics and programming skills are now frequently required within a wide variety of research fields and private industries. However, students unfamiliar with these subjects may be reluctant to join a full course because of time or student workloads or other commitments or a belief it is not for them. The proposed session is short and can be used as an ice‐breaker to let students have a basic understanding of running statistical models in programming language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]