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Using R for Introductory Statistics

John Verzani
Publisher: 
Chapman & Hall/CRC
Publication Date: 
2014
Number of Pages: 
502
Format: 
Hardcover
Edition: 
2
Series: 
The R Series
Price: 
59.95
ISBN: 
9781466590731
Category: 
Textbook
BLL Rating: 

The Basic Library List Committee suggests that undergraduate mathematics libraries consider this book for acquisition.

[Reviewed by
Fernando Q. Gouvêa
, on
07/17/2014
]

See our review of the first edition. The major changes for the second edition have to do with R: the latest version is now used, students and instructors are encouraged to use RStudio and "more idiomatic" R. On the statistics side, a small amount of material dealing with Bayesian analysis, resampling methods, and permutation tests has been added.

DATA
What Is Data?
Some R Essentials
Accessing Data by Using Indices
Reading in Other Sources of Data
UNIVARIATE DATA
Categorical Data
Numeric Data
Shape of a Distribution
BIVARIATE DATA
Pairs of Categorical Variables
Comparing Independent Samples
Relationships in Numeric Data
Simple Linear Regression
MULTIVARIATE DATA
Viewing Multivariate Data
R Basics: Data Frames and Lists
Using Model Formula with Multivariate Data
Lattice Graphics
Types of Data in R
DESCRIBING POPULATIONS
Populations
Families of Distributions
The Central Limit Theorem
SIMULATION
The Normal Approximation for the Binomial
for loops
Simulations Related to the Central Limit Theorem
Defining a Function
Investigating Distributions
Bootstrap Samples
Alternates to for loops
CONFIDENCE INTERVALS
Confidence Interval Ideas
Confidence Intervals for a Population Proportion, p
Confidence Intervals for the Population Mean, µ
Other Confidence Intervals
Confidence Intervals for Differences
Confidence Intervals for the Median
SIGNIFICANCE TESTS
Significance Test for a Population Proportion
Significance Test for the Mean (t-Tests)
Significance Tests and Confidence Intervals
Significance Tests for the Median
Two-Sample Tests of Proportion
Two-Sample Tests of Center
GOODNESS OF FIT
The Chi-Squared Goodness-of-Fit Test
The Chi-Squared Test of Independence
Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Continuous Distributions
LINEAR REGRESSION
The Simple Linear Regression Model
Statistical Inference for Simple Linear Regression
Multiple Linear Regression
ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE
One-Way ANOVA
Using lm() for ANOVA
ANCOVA
Two-Way ANOVA
TWO EXTENSIONS OF THE LINEAR MODEL
Logistic Regression
Nonlinear Models
APPENDIX A: GETTING, INSTALLING, AND RUNNING R
Installing and Starting R
Extending R Using Additional Packages
APPENDIX B: GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES AND R
The Windows GUI
The Mac OS X GUI
Rcdmr
APPENDIX C: TEACHING WITH R
APPENDIX D: MORE ON GRAPHICS WITH R
Low- and High-Level Graphic Functions
Creating New Graphics in R
APPENDIX E: PROGRAMMING IN R
Editing Functions
Using Functions
Using Files and a Better Editor
Object-Oriented Programming with R
INDEX