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Beginning R: An Introduction to Statistical Programming

Beginning R: An Introduction to Statistical Programming

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Beginning R: An Introduction to Statistical Programming

Pace, Larry; Wiley, Joshua

Beginning R, Second Edition is a hands-on book showing how to use the R language, write and save R scripts, read in data files, and write custom statistical functions as well as use built in functions. This book shows the use of R in specific cases such as one-way ANOVA analysis, linear and logistic regression, data visualization, parallel processing, bootstrapping, and more. It takes a hands-on, example-based approach incorporating best practices with clear explanations of the statistics being done. It has been completely re-written since the first edition to make use of the latest packages and features in R version 3.

R is a powerful open-source language and programming environment for statistics and has become the de facto standard for doing, teaching, and learning computational statistics.  R is both an object-oriented language and a functional language that is easy to learn, easy to use, and completely free. A large community of dedicated R users and programmers provides an excellent source of R code, functions, and data sets, with a constantly evolving ecosystem of packages providing new functionality for data analysis. R has also become popular in commercial use at companies such as Microsoft, Google, and Oracle. Your investment in learning R is sure to pay off in the long term as R continues to grow into the go to language for data analysis and research.

What You Will Learn:

  • How to acquire and install R
  • Hot to import and export data and scripts
  • How to analyze data and generate graphics
  • How to program in R to write custom functions
  • Hot to use R for interactive statistical explorations
  • How to conduct bootstrapping and other advanced techniques

Details

Published by: Apress

Publication Date: 2015-10-13

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781484203743

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4842-0373-6

Dimensions: 254cm x178cm

Pages: 327

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