The R Book, 2nd Edition Front Cover

The R Book, 2nd Edition

  • Length: 1076 pages
  • Edition: 2
  • Publisher:
  • Publication Date: 2012-12-26
  • ISBN-10: 0470973927
  • ISBN-13: 9780470973929
  • Sales Rank: #580731 (See Top 100 Books)
Description

Hugely successful and popular text presenting an extensive and comprehensive guide for all R users

The R language is recognized as one of the most powerful and flexible statistical software packages, enabling users to apply many statistical techniques that would be impossible without such software to help implement such large data sets. R has become an essential tool for understanding and carrying out research.

This edition:

  • Features full colour text and extensive graphics throughout.
  • Introduces a clear structure with numbered section headings to help readers locate information more efficiently.
  • Looks at the evolution of R over the past five years.
  • Features a new chapter on Bayesian Analysis and Meta-Analysis.
  • Presents a fully revised and updated bibliography and reference section.
  • Is supported by an accompanying website allowing examples from the text to be run by the user.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
1 Getting Started 1
2 Essentials of the R Language 9
3 Data Input 97
4 Dataframes 107
5 Graphics 135
6 Tables 183
7 Mathematics 195
8 Classical Tests 279
9 Statistical Modelling 323
10 Regression 387
11 Analysis of Variance 449
12 Analysis of Covariance 489
13 Generalized Linear Models 511
14 Count Data 527
15 Count Data in Tables 549
16 Proportion Data 569
17 Binary Response Variables 593
18 Generalized Additive Models 611
19 Mixed-Effects Models 627
20 Non-linear Regression 661
21 Meta-analysis xxx
22 Bayesian statistics xxx
23 Tree Models 685
24 Time Series Analysis 701
25 Multivariate Statistics 731
26 Spatial Statistics 749
27 Survival Analysis 787
28 Simulation Models 811
29 Changing the Look of Graphics 827
References and Further Reading 873
Index 877s

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