[R] elementary statistics with R (rkward?)

Chuck Cleland ccleland at optonline.net
Wed Jul 11 17:44:43 CEST 2007


Christopher W. Ryan wrote:
> As a fellow beginner, I also found Handbook of Statistical Analyses
> Using R, by Brian Everitt, to be a very useful book.  There is an
> accompanying R package, "HSAUR".
> 
> Also Using R for Introductory Statistics, by John Verzani.  There is an
> accompanying R package, "UsingR".

  And for Peter Dalgaard's book there is the ISwR package:

http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/ISwR.html

> Christopher W. Ryan, MD
> SUNY Upstate Medical University Clinical Campus at Binghamton
> 40 Arch Street, Johnson City, NY  13790
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> PGP public keys available at http://home.stny.rr.com/ryancw/
> 
> "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood,
> divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the
> vast and endless sea."  [Antoine de St. Exupery]
> 
> Charles Annis, P.E. wrote:
>> Face the music and buy the book: _Introductory Statistics with R_ by Peter
>> Dalgaard.  It's perfect for what you need.  It's clear and concise and will
>> teach you statistics AND R as painlessly as such a thing can be.  It's
>> inexpensive and you can get it on Amazon.com and every other major
>> bookseller, including the nearest university bookstore.
>>
>> Charles Annis, P.E.
>>
>> Charles.Annis at StatisticalEngineering.com
>> phone: 561-352-9699
>> eFax:  614-455-3265
>> http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com
>>  
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Donatas G.
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 9:27 AM
>> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> Subject: [R] elementary statistics with R (rkward?)
>>
>> Hi, I am trying to learn some basic statistics stuff but I cannot find any
>> elementary statistics exercises using R language. Using RKward would be even
>> better...
>>
>> I need that in analysing sociological data, obtained through questionnairres
>> -
>> findind corelations between variables, relations between different types of
>> data, etc.
>>
>> Could anyone recommend simple tutorials/exercises, available on www for me
>> to
>> work on?
>>
>> I realize it would be much simple to do this introductory stuff with spss,
>> that
>> everyone around me is using here in Lithuania, but I'd really like to learn
>> to
>> do it with R instead...
>>
> 
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