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Basic Statistics with R: Reaching Decisions with Data provides an understanding of the processes at work in using data for results. Sections cover data collection and discuss exploratory analyses, including visual graphs, numerical summaries, and relationships between variables - basic probability, and statistical inference - including hypothesis testing and confidence intervals. All topics are taught using real-data drawn from various fields, including economics, biology, political science and sports. Using this wide variety of motivating examples allows students to directly connect and make statistics essential to their field of interest, rather than seeing it as a separate and ancillary knowledge area. In addition to introducing students to statistical topics using real data, the book provides a gentle introduction to coding, having the students use the statistical language and software R. Students learn to load data, calculate summary statistics, create graphs and do statistical inference using R with either Windows or Macintosh machines.

Table of Contents:
1. Statistics: What is it and Why is it Important? 2. An Introduction to R 3. Data Collection: Methods and Concerns 4. R Tutorial: Subsetting Data 5. Exploratory Data Analyses (EDA) 6. Libraries, Loading Data, and EDA in R 7. An Incredibly Brief Introduction to Probability 8. Sampling Distributions, or Why EDA is not Enough 9. The Idea of Hypothesis Testing 10. Hypothesis Testing with the Central Limit Theorem 11. Introduction to Confidence Intervals 12. One Sample Hypothesis Tests 13. Confidence Intervals for a Single Parameter 14. Two Sample Hypothesis Tests 15. Confidence Intervals for Two Parameters 16. Hypothesis Testing and Confidence Intervals in R 17. Statistics: The World Beyond This Book

About the Author :
Dr. Stephen Loftus is an Analyst in Research & Development for the Atlanta Braves. Prior to this, he held academic positions at Randolph-Macon College and Sweet Briar College. In his experience in academia and industry, Dr. Loftus has spent a great deal of time studying and developing Bayesian models for a variety of projects. These highly collaborative projects range from analysis in baseball to studies in numerical ecology. In developing these models, he found himself, on many occasions, needing to explain not only the decisions made in making these models, but also the rationale behind the Bayesian philosophy of statistics to individuals with diverse mathematical backgrounds.

Review :
"This monograph presents on a total of 283 pages an introduction into the basic concepts of the statistical analysis software R and addresses to readers with no previous knowledge. There are 20 chapters and two appendices in the book which are organized into five principal parts.In the first part of the book, the author introduces in Chapter 1 the basic framework of statistical thinking like the steps of scientific process (generation of hypotheses, data collection and description, statistical inference, theory/decision making). A general overview of the software R is provided in Chapter 2. Aspects concerning data collection are described in part two of the book covering the Chapters 3 to 5. Theoretical concepts on data collection are discussed in Chapter 3 and the implementation using R is provided in Chapter 4 (subsetting data, random numbers and random samples) and Chapter 5 (libraries and loading data into R). Part three of the book is devoted to explorative and descriptive statistics and covers the Chapters 6 and 7. Chapter 6 presents the methods of parameters and statistics for qualitative and quantitative variables and their implementation in R is provided in Chapter 7. Parts four and five (Chapters 8 to 20) focus on statistical inference. After an introduction into the framework of probability (Chapter 8), sample distributions (Chapter 9), hypothesis testing (Chapter 10), central limit theorem (Chapter 11), interval estimates (Chapter 12), hypothesis testing (Chapter 13) and confidence intervals for single parameter (Chapter 14) as well as for two parameters (hypothesis testing in Chapter 15 and confidence intervals in Chapter 16) the transfer of the theoretical concepts in R is described in Chapter 17. Chapter 18 deals with inference for two quantitative variables and simple linear regression is presented in Chapter 19. The fifth part ends with an overview of advanced statistical methods in Chapter 20. The volume ends with an appendix containing the solutions to all self-learning questions and an appendix listing all R example data sets. In summary, the book under review is recommended to interested students with no prior knowledge. Each chapter is enriched with a large number of supportive exercises and control questions supporting self-learning activities." --zbMath/European Mathematical Society and the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities "…A useful introduction for non-specialists starting a career which involves analysing data. Such readers can refine their knowledge as they become more experienced…" --Owen Toller, The Mathematical Gazette


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780128207888
  • Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Academic Press Inc
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 304
  • Weight: 480 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0128207884
  • Publisher Date: 30 Jun 2021
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Reaching Decisions with Data
  • Width: 152 mm


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