Beginning R: An Introduction to Statistical Programming

Larry Pace

Joshua Wiley

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 oct 2015

Beginning R, Second Edition is a hands-on book showing howto use the R language, write and save R scripts, read in data files, and writecustom statistical functions as well as use built in functions. This book showsthe use of R in specific cases such as one-way ANOVA analysis, linear andlogistic regression, data visualization, parallel processing, bootstrapping,and more. It takes a hands-on, example-based approach incorporating bestpractices with clear explanations of the statistics being done. It has beencompletely re-written since the first edition to make use of the latestpackages and features in R version 3.
R is a powerful open-source language and programmingenvironment for statistics and has become the de facto standard for doing,teaching, and learning computational statistics. R is both an object-oriented language and afunctional language that is easy to learn, easy to use, and completely free. Alarge community of dedicated R users and programmers provides an excellentsource of R code, functions, and data sets, with a constantly evolvingecosystem of packages providing new functionality for data analysis. R has alsobecome popular in commercial use at companies such as Microsoft, Google, andOracle. Your investment in learning R is sure to pay off in the long term as Rcontinues 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 advancedtechniques

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Dr. Larry Pace is a statistics author and educator, as well as a consultant. He lives in the upstate area of South Carolina in the town of Anderson. He is a professor of statistics, mathematics, psychology, management, and leadership. He has programmed in a variety of languages and scripting languages including R, Visual Basic, JavaScript, C##, PHP, APL, and in a long-ago world, Fortran IV. He writes books and tutorials on statistics, computers, and technology. He has also published many academic papers, and made dozens of presentations and lectures. He has consulted with Compaq Computers, AT&T, Xerox Corporation, the U.S. Navy, and International Paper. He has taught at Keiser University, Argosy University, Capella University, Ashford University, Anderson University (where he was the chair of the behavioral sciences department), Clemson University, Louisiana Tech University, LSU in Shreveport, the University of Tennessee, Cornell University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Georgia.