A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R Second Edition pdf

A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R Second Edition 内容简介

A Proven Guide for Easily Using R to Effectively Analyze Data

Like its bestselling predecessor, A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R, Second Edition provides a guide to data analysis using the R system for statistical computing. Each chapter includes a brief account of the relevant statistical background, along with appropriate references.

New to the Second Edition

• New chapters on graphical displays, generalized additive models, and simultaneous inference
• A new section on generalized linear mixed models that completes the discussion on the analysis of longitudinal data where the response variable does not have a normal distribution
• New examples and additional exercises in several chapters
• A new version of the HSAUR package (HSAUR2), which is available from CRAN

This edition continues to offer straightforward descriptions of how to conduct a range of statistical analyses using R, from simple inference to recursive partitioning to cluster analysis. Focusing on how to use R and interpret the results, it provides students and researchers in many disciplines with a self-contained means of using R to analyze their data.

A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R Second Edition 精彩文摘

1.1 What is R?

The R system for statistical computing is an environment for data analysis and graphics. The root of R is the S language, developed by John Chambers and colleagues (Becker et al., 1988, Chambers and Hastie, 1992, Chambers, 1998) at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now owned by Lucent Technologies) starting in the 1960ies. The S language was designed and developed as a
programming language for data analysis tasks but in fact it is a full-featured programming language in its current implementations.