Project-Based R Companion to Introductory Statistics

ISBN-13: 9780367687342 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 169 str.

Chelsea Myers

Opis

This book is envisioned as companion to a traditional statistics or biostatistics textbook, with each chapter covering usual topics such as descriptive statistics, regression, and hypothesis testing. However, each chapter will present its material using a complete step-by-step analysis of a real publicly-available dataset.

Spis treści

1. Getting Started with R and RStudio
2. Describing Categorical Data
3. Describing Quantitative Data
4. The Normal Distribution
5. Two-Way Tables
6. Linear Regression and Correlation
7. Random Sampling
8. Inference About a Population Mean
9. Inference About a Population Proportion
10. Comparing Two Population Means
11. Comparing Two Population Proportions
12. Student Project 1
13. Student Project 2
14. Student Project 3

O autorze

After a 10-year career as a research biostatistician in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chelsea Myers teaches statistics and biostatistics at Rollins College and Valencia College in Central Florida. She has authored or co-authored more than 30 scientific papers and presentations and is the creator of the MCAT preparation website MCATMath.com. She lives in Winter Park, Florida with her family.