Statistical Analysis with R For Dummies (For Dummies (Computers))
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Statistical Analysis with R For Dummies (For Dummies (Computers))

1st Edition

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$18.48
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Paperback
Pages
464
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For Dummies
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ISBN-13
978-1119337065
Dimensions
7.4 x 1.3 x 9.2 inches
Weight
1.35 pounds

Description

From the Inside Flap Leverage R as a powerful statistical tool Leverage R as a powerful statistical tool Test your hypotheses and draw conclusions Test your hypotheses and draw conclusions Use R to give meaning to your data Use R to give meaning to your data The easy, practical guide to R R is powerful, free software for statistical analysis—full of many tools and functions. R makes it possible to carry out complex statistical analyses by simply entering a few commands. This practical, step-by-step guide explains foundational statistical concepts and shows you how to implement them. You'll be able to perform analyses, understand their implications and results, and make them available to a wide audience. Inside… How data is evaluated How data is evaluated Installing and setting up R Installing and setting up R Using R for graphing Using R for graphing All about variations and deviations All about variations and deviations How to draw conclusions How to draw conclusions Working with regression Working with regression Using non-parametric statistics Using non-parametric statistics Probability and distributions Probability and distributions Leverage R as a powerful statistical tool Leverage R as a powerful statistical tool Test your hypotheses and draw conclusions Test your hypotheses and draw conclusions Use R to give meaning to your data Use R to give meaning to your data The easy, practical guide to R R is powerful, free software for statistical analysisx97full of many tools and functions. R makes it possible to carry out complex statistical analyses by simply entering a few commands. This practical, step-by-step guide explains foundational statistical concepts and shows you how to implement them. You'll be able to perform analyses, understand their implications and results, and make them available to a wide audience. Inside… How data is evaluated How data is evaluated Installing and setting up R Installing and setting up R Using R for graphing Using R for graphing All about variations and deviations All about variations and deviations How to draw conclusions How to draw conclusions Working with regression Working with regression Using non-parametric statistics Using non-parametric statistics Probability and distributions Probability and distributions Joseph Schmuller, PhD, has taught undergraduate and graduate statistics, and has 25 years of IT experience. The author of four editions of Statistical Analysis with Excel For Dummies and three editions of Teach Yourself UML in 24 Hours (SAMS), he has created online coursework for Lynda.com and is a former Editor in Chief of PC AI magazine. He is a Research Scholar at the University of North Florida. Read more

Features & Highlights

  • Understanding the world of R programming and analysis has never been easier
  • Most guides to R, whether books or online, focus on R functions and procedures. But now, thanks to
  • Statistical Analysis with R For Dummies
  • , you have access to a trusted, easy-to-follow guide that focuses on the foundational statistical concepts that R addresses―as well as step-by-step guidance that shows you exactly how to implement them using R programming.
  • People are becoming more aware of R every day as major institutions are adopting it as a standard. Part of its appeal is that it's a free tool that's taking the place of costly statistical software packages that sometimes take an inordinate amount of time to learn. Plus, R enables a user to carry out complex statistical analyses by simply entering a few commands, making sophisticated analyses available and understandable to a wide audience.
  • Statistical Analysis with R For Dummies
  • enables you to perform these analyses and to fully understand their implications and results.
  • Gets you up to speed on the #1 analytics/data science software tool
  • Gets you up to speed on the #1 analytics/data science software tool
  • Demonstrates how to easily find, download, and use cutting-edge community-reviewed methods in statistics and predictive modeling
  • Demonstrates how to easily find, download, and use cutting-edge community-reviewed methods in statistics and predictive modeling
  • Shows you how R offers intel from leading researchers in data science, free of charge
  • Shows you how R offers intel from leading researchers in data science, free of charge
  • Provides information on using R Studio to work with R
  • Provides information on using R Studio to work with R
  • Get ready to use R to crunch and analyze your data―the fast and easy way!

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Excellent treatment of statistical calculations in R

First of all, this is NOT a good book to learn R if you are a beginner. It assumes a basic knowledge of R but still goes through a lot of the basics. It does not attempt to teach a broad coverage of the language. For example, it has nothing on flow control, which makes sense since this deals with the statistical packages already in R so it doesn't cover how to actually write your own programs in R(if you want to do that, "R For Dummies" is an excellent introduction). So, this book sticks to what it is advertised to do: statistics. Does it cover an enormous amount of topics? No, after all, statistics is very vast. It covers such things as linear models, one and two way anova and contrasts in anova, for example. It doesn't cover topics in psychometry(which R can handle very nicely), like Cronbach's Alpha. So, this book is not encyclopedic, but you can see what it covers and what it doesn't before you buy it. No one source is going to give you everything in the R language. This book is an excellent source for what it does cover. Don't assume that just because it is part of the "For Dummies" series that it is super basic. There are many detailed, intricate books in the series. The series also includes many other books on R so, you might consider starting a collection!
One other good point with this book: it is very recent so it includes the use of R Studio(as well as how to install it) which makes using R a bit more pleasant.
19 people found this helpful
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this book will probably be perfect for your purposes

If you've taken any basic intro stats course, in combination with even learning a little R- this book will be WAY too simple for you. I was hoping for modeling building, but it barely touches on that (and not until the end). If you have no understanding of R, and little statistical training, this book will probably be perfect for your purposes.
9 people found this helpful
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Finally I don't have to do statistics with a scientific calculator!

This book explained complex statistical concepts with many examples using R. I had studied statistics at an engineering university and now I finally can spend my time formulating the problems instead of working them out on my scientific calculator.
5 people found this helpful
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Not an ideal book for a beginner. Some very nice examples of graphing techniques.

The book has a noble goal of teaching statistical analysis with R programming. The book nicely demonstrates the graphing capabilities of the software. The statistics reviewed are normal distribution, basic z-tests, t-tests, , regression, and some probability. I am not sure that this is a good book for beginning reader who is learning statistics or for someone starting to learn R. More excercises, databases, and simpler code are needed for the text to be a useful to a beginner. I had some problems with the code as written on page 151. If I moved the geom_segment code to right after the geom_line code I stopped getting error messages in the console. I might add be very careful with all the + signs and their location in the arguments for ggplot for this code sample. If the reader selectively reads through the codes and examples there are many valuable techniques, functions, and graphing to be learned with this text. I found the graphing of the distributions of degrees of freedom for t very helpful.
3 people found this helpful
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Super helpful!

This is really well written and easy to read. Very helpful re-introduction after not taking stats for a few years!
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Stats

Good source of basic information.
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I say: Buy it!

If you're working in stats or even old-school data mining, R is still very much well and alive, and this book does a great job of getting you going. The concepts are broken down well, and you may even get a quick probabilities and stats refresher working through the book (but by no means a replacement of going through a "math bootcamp" if you're very rusty on your math).
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Great Review

I took a lot of statistics classes
This was good.
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Awesome!

Very thorough!
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Excellent

Excellent reference text