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Introductory Statistics with R (Statistics and Computing)

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Author: Peter Dalgaard
Publisher: Springer
Category: Book

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Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
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Pages: 364
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8

ISBN: 0387790535
Dewey Decimal Number: 519
EAN: 9780387790534
ASIN: 0387790535

Publication Date: August 15, 2008
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Product Description
PR is an Open Source implementation of the S language. It works on multiple computing platforms and can be freely downloaded. R is now in widespread use for teaching at many levels as well as for practical data analysis and methodological development./P PThis book provides an elementary-level introduction to R, targeting both non-statistician scientists in various fields and students of statistics. The main mode of presentation is via code examples with liberal commenting of the code and the output, from the computational as well as the statistical viewpoint. A supplementary R package can be downloaded and contains the data sets./P PThe statistical methodology includes statistical standard distributions, one- and two-sample tests with continuous data, regression analysis, one- and two-way analysis of variance, regression analysis, analysis of tabular data, and sample size calculations. In addition, the last six chapters contain introductions to multiple linear regression analysis, linear models in general, logistic regression, survival analysis, Poisson regression, and nonlinear regression./P PIn the second edition, the text and code have been updated to R version 2.6.2. The last two methodological chapters are new, as is a chapter on advanced data handling. The introductory chapter has been extended and reorganized as two chapters. Exercises have been revised and answers are now provided in an Appendix./P

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5 out of 5 stars

Read this after Using R for Introductory Statistics December 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This is a great intro-intermediate R book for intro stats.br /I recommend you to read "Using R for Introductory Statistics" by John Verzani first, if you know general things about stats.br /Using R is written in more step-by-step way and there are a lot of repetitions that helped you learn R language by merely reading through the book.br /After you finish Using R, proceed to Dalgaard's book.br /As one of the reviewer said, Dalgaard's book can be a concise reference book since it covers more stuff than Using R does.br /It is a nice, compact book on many techniques, but it sometimes lacks suffice explanations.br /This is why Using R should come first and Dalgaard's book comes next.br /If you finish these books, you are ready to explore other R and S-Plus books as you need.br /

3 out of 5 stars

Intro. stats with R June 3, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

This book seems like an excellent reference if you read though it in order and follow along using the example dataset provided online. However, I find that the transition to using my own data is far from clear. The book does not prepare you very well for using your own data, and barely discusses any type of matrices. This book if for univariate analysis, and univariate data. br /As a reference it is definitely not as well suited. Looking up a topic in the index and jumping to that page often drops you in the middle of an example and you have to go back to the beginning of the at least the chapter to understand what's going on.br /Basically after using this book I have found that though I can parrot the examples on the page, I do not understand the reasoning behind the code. Therefore when I go on to try and use my own data, I do not have the understanding and vocabulary necessary to adjust the commands to the needs of my dataset. For example there is a section on graphics (chapter 3) but I was not able to use it to help me figure out how to label a simple chart, unless it was the same chart that was used in the example.

4 out of 5 stars

Good book on how to use R for basic statistical analysis May 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

If you are new to statistics or have a limited knowledge of basic programming skills this book is not for you. If you understand basic statistics and know something about programming then this is an excellent introduction to how to use R to perform basic statistical analysis. It is not an R manual, as was stated in the preface. Nor is it an introductory statistics book by itself. It describes the analysis technique in high level, walks through the analysis step by step, and shows you how to use R to do the analysis. The chapter on linear models, specifically where he designs the matrices and dummy variables was a bit confusing. That was the only issue I had with the book.

5 out of 5 stars

Fast shipping, good quality. Thanks! February 22, 2008
0 out of 10 found this review helpful

The shipping is fast and the book arrived in good quality. I appreciate it very much. Thanks!

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent resource September 22, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

I bought this book a little over a year ago when a friend and colleague insisted I learn the R system for our collaborative work. I am not a professional statistician, but an engineer and researcher who needs and uses statistics in the course of my professional work.br /br /I found this book approachable and informative from the non-professional perspective. (That is, from the viewpoint of a non-statistician.) I found enough examples to guide me through the process of bringing my datasets into the R environment, and then enough guidance to get me through the initial analyses necessary to make meaningful use of the statistical computations contained within the R system.br /br /There are many other texts that treat the kinds of advanced statistics capability in the R system. Those are also necessary references for the non-statistician. There are also other texts on using the graphics subsystem present in R (which is substantial). Those references are also useful for preparation of reports and other written material.br /br /But, this text is most useful as a primer for the system and is a first source on my shelf when I need to know the "how-to" of the basics. Then, if my needs are more substantial than those addressed by Dalgaard, I'll turn to other references.

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