Using R for Introductory Statistics (Hardcover, 3rd Edition)

The second edition of a bestselling textbook, Using R for Introductory Statistics guides students through the basics of R, helping them overcome the sometimes steep learning curve. The author does this by breaking the material down into small, task-oriented steps. The second edition maintains the features that made the first edition so popular, while updating data, examples, and changes to R in line with the current version.

See What’s New in the Second Edition:

Increased emphasis on more idiomatic R provides a grounding in the functionality of base R.

Discussions of the use of RStudio helps new R users avoid as many pitfalls as possible.

Use of knitr package makes code easier to read and therefore easier to reason about.

Additional information on computer-intensive approaches motivates the traditional approach.

Updated examples and data make the information current and topical.

The book has an accompanying package, UsingR, available from CRAN, R’s repository of user-contributed packages. The package contains the data sets mentioned in the text (data(package="UsingR")), answers to selected problems (answers()), a few demonstrations (demo()), the errata (errata()), and sample code from the text.

The topics of this text line up closely with traditional teaching progression; however, the book also highlights computer-intensive approaches to motivate the more traditional approach. The authors emphasize realistic data and examples and rely on visualization techniques to gather insight. They introduce statistics and R seamlessly, giving students the tools they need to use R and the information they need to navigate the sometimes complex world of statistical computing.

Table of Contents

DATA

What Is Data?

Some R Essentials

Accessing Data by Using Indices

Reading in Other Sources of Data

UNIVARIATE DATA

Categorical Data

Numeric Data

Shape of a Distribution

BIVARIATE DATA

Pairs of Categorical Variables

Comparing Independent Samples

Relationships in Numeric Data

Simple Linear Regression

MULTIVARIATE DATA

Viewing Multivariate Data

R Basics: Data Frames and Lists

Using Model Formula with Multivariate Data

Lattice Graphics

Types of Data in R

DESCRIBING POPULATIONS

Populations

Families of Distributions

The Central Limit Theorem

SIMULATION

The Normal Approximation for the Binomial

for loops

Simulations Related to the Central Limit Theorem

Defining a Function

Investigating Distributions

Bootstrap Samples

Alternates to for loops

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS

Confidence Interval Ideas

Confidence Intervals for a Population Proportion, p

Confidence Intervals for the Population Mean, µ

Other Confidence Intervals

Confidence Intervals for Differences

Confidence Intervals for the Median

SIGNIFICANCE TESTS

Significance Test for a Population Proportion

Significance Test for the Mean (t-Tests)

Significance Tests and Confidence Intervals

Significance Tests for the Median

Two-Sample Tests of Proportion

Two-Sample Tests of Center

GOODNESS OF FIT

The Chi-Squared Goodness-of-Fit Test

The Chi-Squared Test of Independence

Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Continuous Distributions

LINEAR REGRESSION

The Simple Linear Regression Model

Statistical Inference for Simple Linear Regression

Multiple Linear Regression

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE

One-Way ANOVA

Using lm() for ANOVA

ANCOVA

Two-Way ANOVA

TWO EXTENSIONS OF THE LINEAR MODEL

Logistic Regression

Nonlinear Models

APPENDIX A: GETTING, INSTALLING, AND RUNNING R

Installing and Starting R

Extending R Using Additional Packages

APPENDIX B: GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES AND R

The Windows GUI

The Mac OS X GUI

Rcdmr

APPENDIX C: TEACHING WITH R

APPENDIX D: MORE ON GRAPHICS WITH R

Low- and High-Level Graphic Functions

Creating New Graphics in R

APPENDIX E: PROGRAMMING IN R

Editing Functions

Using Functions

Using Files and a Better Editor

Object-Oriented Programming with R

INDEX

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series
Release date:	June 2014
First published:	2014
Authors:	John Verzani
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	520
Edition:	3rd Edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4665-9073-1
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Probability & statistics Books > Computing & IT > Computer software packages > Other software packages > Mathematical & statistical software Promotions
LSN:	1-4665-9073-4
Barcode:	9781466590731

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