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Beginning R

The Statistical Programming Language

Mark Gardener
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Year
2012
Language
English

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Conquer the complexities of this open-source statistical language
R is fast becoming the de facto standard for statistical computing and analysis in science, business, engineering, and related fields. This book examines this complex language using simple statistical examples, showing how R operates in a user-friendly context. Both students and workers in fields that require extensive statistical analysis will find this book helpful as they learn to use R for simple summary statistics, hypothesis testing, creating graphs, regression, and much more. It covers formula notation, complex statistics, manipulating data and extracting components, and rudimentary programming.
• R, the open-source statistical language increasingly used to handle statistics and produces publication-quality graphs, is notoriously complex
• This book makes R easier to understand through the use of simple statistical examples, teaching the necessary elements in the context in which R is actually used
• Covers getting started with R and using it for simple summary statistics, hypothesis testing, and graphs
• Shows how to use R for formula notation, complex statistics, manipulating data, extracting components, and regression
• Provides beginning programming instruction for those who want to write their own scripts
Beginning R offers anyone who needs to perform statistical analysis the information necessary to use R with confidence.

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