Introductory Statistics with R

by Peter Dalgaard

Introductory Statistics with R (Statistics and Computing) Seller is not affiliated with Wiley and Wiley has not endorsed the spiraling of this book

Genres: Mathematics, Nonfiction, Programming, Reference, Textbooks, Science, Technical

320 pages, Spiral-bound

First published January 1, 2002

Reviews

[Jyotika Varmani · Rating 4 out of 5]

Though the book is very informative, I still found it to be at a difficulty level not suitable to the beginner. R is quite complicated anyway. The instructions to make use of it need to be put as simply as possible.

Nonetheless, the book is well organized, and detailed. A good textbook.

[Terran M · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you already understand the concepts of frequentist statistics, this book will clearly show you how to apply them using R, and get you from zero to a place where you can comfortably learn more from the online documentation. The book is clearly written and has copious examples; the explanations of the meaning of the output is often better than the library documentation. The chapter on manipulating data in R is particularly strong with both clear exposition and a good selection of what to cover to help statisticians become productive.

However, the explanation of the statistics is very brief and entirely unsuitable for novices. When I ran into a few things I was already not familiar with, the explanations were too condensed and I had to look them up elsewhere to understand. If you do not already know statistics well, reading this book will result only in frustration. For people who have no statistics background, I think I would recommend starting with Baclawski's "Introduction to Probability with R" or "OpenIntro Statistics" by Diez et al.

[Julia Colleen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is by far the best 'how-to-use-"R"' book... ever!
I highly recommend going through all of the exercises in the book. The data comes with the basic "R" download in the 'ISwR' library.

[Oscar Pettersson]

Slutförd som = "not for me".
Boken är lärorik etc, men utgår från en bas-version av R.
En utan tidyverse - paketsamlingen som förser de universal go-to paketen för all form av statistisk analys och datamanipulering.
Hoppar till den istället (Y).

[Josh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nicely set out with many examples. Main thing lacking the ability to solve symbolic problems - but that is a more reflection of the limitation of R than a reflection of the book.

[Bill · Rating 5 out of 5]

A gentle refresher.

[Mike · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nothin' but love for R.

[Yuta Tamberg · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not only a good starting point, but also pretty useful handbook