R all-in-one for dummies

A deep dive into the programming language of choice for statistics and data With R All-in-One For Dummies, you get five mini-books in one, offering a complete and thorough resource on the R programming language and a road map for making sense of the sea of data we're all swimming in. Maybe you&...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Schmuller, Joseph, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc [2023]
Colección:--For dummies.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009724221206719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • About This All-in-One
  • Book 1: Introducing R
  • Book 2: Describing Data
  • Book 3: Analyzing Data
  • Book 4: Learning from Data
  • Book 5: Harnessing R: Some Projects to Keep You Busy
  • What You Can Safely Skip
  • Foolish Assumptions
  • Icons Used in This Book
  • Beyond This Book
  • Where to Go from Here
  • 1 Introducing R
  • Chapter 1 R: What It Does and How It Does It
  • The Statistical (and Related) Ideas You Just Have to Know
  • Samples and populations
  • Variables: Dependent and independent
  • Types of data
  • A little probability
  • Inferential statistics: Testing hypotheses
  • Null and alternative hypotheses
  • Two types of error
  • Getting R
  • Getting RStudio
  • A Session with R
  • The working directory
  • Getting started
  • R Functions
  • User-Defined Functions
  • Comments
  • R Structures
  • Vectors
  • Numerical vectors
  • Matrices
  • Lists
  • Data frames
  • for Loops and if Statements
  • Chapter 2 Working with Packages, Importing, and Exporting
  • Installing Packages
  • Examining Data
  • Heads and tails
  • Missing data
  • Subsets
  • R Formulas
  • More Packages
  • Exploring the tidyverse
  • Importing and Exporting
  • Spreadsheets
  • CSV files
  • Text files
  • 2 Describing Data
  • Chapter 1 Getting Graphic
  • Finding Patterns
  • Graphing a distribution
  • Bar-hopping
  • Slicing the pie
  • The plot of scatter
  • Of boxes and whiskers
  • Doing the Basics: Base R Graphics, That Is
  • Histograms
  • Graph features
  • Bar plots
  • Pie graphs
  • Dot charts
  • Bar plots revisited
  • Scatter plots
  • A plot twist
  • Scatter plot matrix
  • Box plots
  • Kicking It Up a Notch to ggplot2
  • Histograms
  • Bar plots
  • Dot charts
  • Bar plots re-revisited
  • Scatter plots
  • About that plot twist . . .
  • Scatter plot matrix
  • Box plots
  • Putting a Bow On It.
  • Chapter 2 Finding Your Center
  • Means: The Lure of Averages
  • Calculating the Mean
  • The Average in R: mean()
  • What's your condition?
  • Eliminate signs forthwith()
  • Explore the data
  • Outliers: The flaw of averages
  • Medians: Caught in the Middle
  • The Median in R: median()
  • Statistics à la Mode
  • The Mode in R
  • Chapter 3 Deviating from the Average
  • Measuring Variation
  • Averaging squared deviations: Variance and how to calculate it
  • Sample variance
  • Variance in R
  • Back to the Roots: Standard Deviation
  • Population standard deviation
  • Sample standard deviation
  • Standard Deviation in R
  • Conditions, conditions, conditions . . .
  • Chapter 4 Meeting Standards and Standings
  • Catching Some Zs
  • Characteristics of z-scores
  • Bonds versus the Bambino
  • Exam scores
  • Standard Scores in R
  • Where Do You Stand?
  • Ranking in R
  • Tied scores
  • Nth smallest, Nth largest
  • Percentiles
  • Percent ranks
  • Summarizing
  • Chapter 5 Summarizing It All
  • How Many?
  • The High and the Low
  • Living in the Moments
  • A teachable moment
  • Back to descriptives
  • Skewness
  • Kurtosis
  • Tuning in the Frequency
  • Nominal variables: table() et al.
  • Numerical variables: hist()
  • Cumulative frequency
  • Step by step: The empirical cumulative distribution function
  • Numerical variables: stem()
  • Summarizing a Data Frame
  • Chapter 6 What's Normal?
  • Hitting the Curve
  • Digging deeper
  • Parameters of a normal distribution
  • Working with Normal Distributions
  • Distributions in R
  • Normal density function
  • Plotting a normal curve
  • Cumulative density function
  • Plotting the cdf
  • Quantiles of normal distributions
  • Plotting the cdf with quartiles
  • Random sampling
  • Meeting a Distinguished Member of the Family
  • The standard normal distribution in R
  • Plotting the standard normal distribution
  • 3 Analyzing Data.
  • Chapter 1 The Confidence Game: Estimation
  • Understanding Sampling Distributions
  • An EXTREMELY Important Idea: The Central Limit Theorem
  • (Approximately) simulating the central limit theorem
  • Predictions of the central limit theorem
  • Confidence: It Has Its Limits!
  • Finding confidence limits for a mean
  • Using R to find the confidence limits for a mean
  • Fit to a t
  • Chapter 2 One-Sample Hypothesis Testing
  • Hypotheses, Tests, and Errors
  • Hypothesis Tests and Sampling Distributions
  • Catching Some Z's Again
  • Z Testing in R
  • t for One
  • t Testing in R
  • Working with t-Distributions
  • Visualizing t-Distributions
  • Plotting t in base R graphics
  • Plotting t in ggplot2
  • One more thing about ggplot2
  • Testing a Variance
  • Manufacturing an Example
  • Testing in R
  • Working with Chi-Square Distributions
  • Visualizing Chi-Square Distributions
  • Plotting chi-square in base R graphics
  • Plotting chi-square in ggplot2
  • Chapter 3 Two-Sample Hypothesis Testing
  • Hypotheses Built for Two
  • Sampling Distributions Revisited
  • Applying the central limit theorem
  • Zs once more
  • Z-testing for two samples in R
  • t for Two
  • Like Peas in a Pod: Equal Variances
  • t-Testing in R
  • Working with two vectors
  • Working with a data frame and a formula
  • Visualizing the results
  • Box plots
  • Bar graphs
  • Like ps and qs: Unequal variances
  • A Matched Set: Hypothesis Testing for Paired Samples
  • Paired Sample t-testing in R
  • Testing Two Variances
  • F testing in R
  • F in conjunction with t
  • Working with F Distributions
  • Visualizing F Distributions
  • Chapter 4 Testing More than Two Samples
  • Testing More than Two
  • A thorny problem
  • A solution
  • Meaningful relationships
  • ANOVA in R
  • Plotting a boxplot to visualize the data
  • After the ANOVA
  • Planned comparisons
  • Another word about contrasts
  • Contrasts in R.
  • Unplanned comparisons
  • Another Kind of Hypothesis, Another Kind of Test
  • Working with repeated measures ANOVA
  • Repeated measures ANOVA in R
  • Visualizing the results
  • Getting Trendy
  • Trend Analysis in R
  • Chapter 5 More Complicated Testing
  • Cracking the Combinations
  • Interactions
  • The analysis
  • Two-Way ANOVA in R
  • Visualizing the two-way results
  • Two Kinds of Variables . . . at Once
  • Mixed ANOVA in R
  • Visualizing the mixed ANOVA results
  • After the Analysis
  • Multivariate Analysis of Variance
  • MANOVA in R
  • Visualizing the MANOVA results
  • After the MANOVA
  • Chapter 6 Regression: Linear, Multiple, and the General Linear Model
  • The Plot of Scatter
  • Graphing Lines
  • Regression: What a Line!
  • Using regression for forecasting
  • Variation around the regression line
  • Testing hypotheses about regression
  • Testing the fit
  • Testing the slope
  • Testing the intercept
  • Linear Regression in R
  • Features of the linear model
  • Making predictions
  • Visualizing the scatterplot and regression line
  • Plotting the residuals
  • Juggling Many Relationships at Once: Multiple Regression
  • Multiple regression in R
  • Making predictions
  • Visualizing the 3d scatterplot and regression plane
  • The scatterplot3d package
  • car and rgl: A package deal
  • ANOVA: Another Look
  • Analysis of Covariance: The Final Component of the GLM
  • But Wait - There's More
  • Chapter 7 Correlation: The Rise and Fall of Relationships
  • Understanding Correlation
  • Correlation and Regression
  • Testing Hypotheses about Correlation
  • Is a correlation coefficient greater than zero?
  • Do two correlation coefficients differ?
  • Correlation in R
  • Calculating a correlation coefficient
  • Testing a correlation coefficient
  • Testing the difference between two correlation coefficients
  • Calculating a correlation matrix.
  • Visualizing correlation matrices
  • Multiple Correlation
  • Multiple correlation in R
  • Adjusting R-squared
  • Partial Correlation
  • Partial Correlation in R
  • Semipartial Correlation
  • Semipartial Correlation in R
  • Chapter 8 Curvilinear Regression: When Relationships Get Complicated
  • What Is a Logarithm?
  • What Is e?
  • Power Regression
  • Exponential Regression
  • Logarithmic Regression
  • Polynomial Regression: A Higher Power
  • Which Model Should You Use?
  • Chapter 9 In Due Time
  • A Time Series and Its Components
  • Forecasting: A Moving Experience
  • Forecasting: Another Way
  • Working with Real Data
  • Chapter 10 Non-Parametric Statistics
  • Independent Samples
  • Two samples: Wilcoxon rank-sum test
  • More than two samples: Kruskal-Wallis One-Way ANOVA
  • Matched Samples
  • Two samples: Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed ranks
  • More than two samples: Friedman two-way ANOVA
  • More than two samples: Cochran's Q
  • Correlation: Spearman's rS
  • Correlation: Kendall's Tau
  • A Heads-Up
  • Chapter 11 Introducing Probability
  • What Is Probability?
  • Experiments, trials, events, and sample spaces
  • Sample spaces and probability
  • Compound Events
  • Union and intersection
  • Intersection, again
  • Conditional Probability
  • Working with the probabilities
  • The foundation of hypothesis testing
  • Large Sample Spaces
  • Permutations
  • Combinations
  • R Functions for Counting Rules
  • Random Variables: Discrete and Continuous
  • Probability Distributions and Density Functions
  • The Binomial Distribution
  • The Binomial and Negative Binomial in R
  • Binomial distribution
  • Negative binomial distribution
  • Hypothesis Testing with the Binomial Distribution
  • More on Hypothesis Testing: R versus Tradition
  • Chapter 12 Probability Meets Regression: Logistic Regression
  • Getting the Data
  • Doing the Analysis
  • Visualizing the Results.
  • 4 Learning from Data.