Why learn R? Because it's rapidly becoming the standard for developing statistical software. R in a Nutshell provides a quick and practical way to learn this increasingly popular open source language and environment. You'll not only learn how to program in R, but also how to find the right user-contributed R packages for statistical modeling, visualization, and bioinformatics. The author introduces you to the R environment, including the R graphical user interface and console, and takes you through the fundamentals of the object-oriented R language. Then, through a variety of practical examples from medicine, business, and sports, you'll learn how you can use this remarkable tool to solve your own data analysis problems. * Understand the basics of the language, including the nature of R objects * Learn how to write R functions and build your own packages * Work with data through visualization, statistical analysis, and other methods * Explore the wealth of packages contributed by the R community * Become familiar with the lattice graphics package for high-level data visualization * Learn about bioinformatics packages provided by Bioconductor "I am excited about this book.R in a Nutshell is a great introduction to R, as well as a comprehensive reference for using R in data analytics and visualization. Adler provides 'real world' examples, practical advice, and scripts, making it accessible to anyone working with data, not just professional statisticians." --Martin Schultz, Arthur K. Watson Professor of Computer Science, Yale University

Keeping the uniquely humorous and self-deprecating style that has made students across the world fall in love with Andy Field's books, Discovering Statistics Using R takes students on a journey of statistical discovery using R, a free, flexible and dynamically changing software tool for data analysis that is becoming increasingly popular across the social and behavioural sciences throughout the world. The journey begins by explaining basic statistical and research concepts before a guided tour of the R software environment. Next you discover the importance of exploring and graphing data, before moving onto statistical tests that are the foundations of the rest of the book (for example correlation and regression). You will then stride confidently into intermediate level analyses such as ANOVA, before ending your journey with advanced techniques such as MANOVA and multilevel models. Although there is enough theory to help you gain the necessary conceptual understanding of what you're doing, the emphasis is on applying what you learn to playful and real-world examples that should make the experience more fun than you might expect. Like its sister textbooks, Discovering Statistics Using R is written in an irreverent style and follows the same ground-breaking structure and pedagogical approach. The core material is augmented by a cast of characters to help the reader on their way, together with hundreds of examples, self-assessment tests to consolidate knowledge, and additional website material for those wanting to learn more. Given this book's accessibility, fun spirit, and use of bizarre real-world research it should be essential for anyone wanting to learn about statistics using the freely-available R software.

Recent advances in the understanding of star formation and evolution have been impressive and aspects of that knowledge are explored in this volume. The black hole stellar endpoints are studied and geodesic motion is explored. The emission of gravitational waves is featured due to their very recent experimental discovery.The second aspect of the text is space exploration which began 62 years ago with the Sputnik Earth satellite followed by the landing on the Moon just 50 years ago. Since then Mars has been explored remotely as well as flybys of the outer planets and probes which have escaped the solar system. The text explores many aspects of rocket travel. Finally possibilities for interstellar travel are discussed.All these topics are treated in a unified way using the Matlab App to combine text, figures, formulae and numeric input and output. In this way the reader may vary parameters and see the results in real time. That experience aids in building up an intuitive feel for the many specific problems given in this text.

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Aufbauend auf einer frUheren Untersuchung (vgl. Nr. 2 des Literatur- Verzeichnisses) wurde am Forschungsinstitut fUr Rationalisierung ein EDV-Programmsystem entwickelt, das in dem vorliegenden Bericht seinen Niederschlag gefunden hat. Aufgabe des Programmsystems ist es, aIle im Zusammenhang mit der DurchfUhrung von Multimoment-Studien (im folgen- den MM-Studien) anfallenden Arbeiten, die maschinell ausgefUhrt werden konnen, einem Rechner zu Ubertragen. Der Name MAVAMM ist die AbkUrzung fUr MAschinelle yorbereitung und uswertung von ulti ment-Aufnahmen. Die Zielsetzung einer maschinellen Datenverarbeitung bei MM-Studien loBt sich wie folgt charakterisieren: 1. Verwirklichung einer umfassenden Rationalisierung von MM-Studien Maschinelle AusfUhrung oller formalisierbaren Arbeiten wie Auszah- len, Sortieren, Schreiben und Rechnen, die mit dem Erstellen der Aufnahmebogen, der Aufbereitung des Erhebungsmaterials und der Aus- wertung einschlieBlich der statistischen Analyse der Beobachtungs- ergebnisse verbunden sind. 2. Erweiterung der ErschlieBungstechnik und damit der Aussagemoglich- keiten von MM-Aufnahmen Nutzung verschiedener zusatzlicher Auswertungsmoglichkeiten, z.B. nach Beobachtungs-Objekten, Aufnahme-Bereichen, Aufnahme-Uhrzeit und Aufnahme-Tagen sowie Ausgabe der Ergebnisse in anschaulicher Form. Moglichkeit zum NachprUfen der modellbedingten Voraussetzun- gen fUr die Anwendung des MM-Verfahrens aufgrund der differenzier- ten Darstellung der Ergebnisse und ihrer statistischen Analyse. 3. Schnellere Bereitstellung von Untersuchungsergebnissen Die Vorbereitung von MM-Aufnahmen nimmt wenig Zeit in Anspruch und die Auswertungsergebnisse stehen unmittelbar nach AbschluB der Er- hebungen, d.h. wenn sie noch aktuell sind, zur VerfUgung. 5 4. Berechnung genauerer Auswertungsergebnisse Die bei einer manuellen Auswertung von HH-Aufnahmen maglichen Uber- tragungs-, Sortier-, Rechen- und Schreibfehler werden weitgehend ausgeschaltet.

In information technology, the concepts of cost, time, delivery, space, quality, durability, and price have gained greater importance in solving managerial decision-making problems in supply chain models, transportation problems, and inventory control problems. Moreover, competition is becoming tougher in imprecise environments. Neutrosophic sets and logic are gaining significant attention in solving real-life problems that involve uncertainty, impreciseness, vagueness, incompleteness, inconsistency, and indeterminacy. Neutrosophic Sets in Decision Analysis and Operations Research is a critical, scholarly publication that examines various aspects of organizational research through mathematical equations and algorithms and presents neutrosophic theories and their applications in various optimization fields. Featuring a wide range of topics such as information retrieval, decision making, and matrices, this book is ideal for engineers, technicians, designers, mathematicians, practitioners of mathematics in economy and technology, scientists, academicians, professionals, managers, researchers, and students.

This textbook presents an introduction to generalized linear models, complete with real-world data sets and practice problems, making it applicable for both beginning and advanced students of applied statistics. Generalized linear models (GLMs) are powerful tools in applied statistics that extend the ideas of multiple linear regression and analysis of variance to include response variables that are not normally distributed. As such, GLMs can model a wide variety of data types including counts, proportions, and binary outcomes or positive quantities. The book is designed with the student in mind, making it suitable for self-study or a structured course. Beginning with an introduction to linear regression, the book also devotes time to advanced topics not typically included in introductory textbooks. It features chapter introductions and summaries, clear examples, and many practice problems, all carefully designed to balance theory and practice. The text also provides a working knowledge of applied statistical practice through the extensive use of R, which is integrated into the text. Other features include: * Advanced topics such as power variance functions, saddlepoint approximations, likelihood score tests, modified profile likelihood, small-dispersion asymptotics, and randomized quantile residuals * Nearly 100 data sets in the companion R package GLMsData * Examples that are cross-referenced to the companion data set, allowing readers to load the data and follow the analysis in their own R session