Introductory Statistics with R

• Main Author: Dalgaard, Peter (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2008.
• Series: Statistics and Computing,
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Bioinformatics.; Computational biology.; Probabilities.; Statistics.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Statistics and Computing/Statistics Programs.; Computer Appl. in Life Sciences.

R is an Open Source implementation of the S language. It works on multiple computing platforms and can be freely downloaded. R is now in widespread use for teaching at many levels as well as for practical data analysis and methodological development. This book provides an elementary-level introducti...

Table of Contents:

• Basics
• The R environment
• Probability and distributions
• Descriptive statistics and graphics
• One- and two-sample tests
• Regression and correlation
• Analysis of variance and the Kruskal–Wallis test
• Tabular data
• Power and the computation of sample size
• Advanced data handling
• Multiple regression
• Linear models
• Logistic regression
• Survival analysis
• Rates and Poisson regression
• Nonlinear curve fitting.