© Matt Wiley, Joshua F. Wiley 2020
M. Wiley, J. F. WileyBeginning R 4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6053-1_7

7. Understanding Probability and Distributions

Matt Wiley1  and Joshua F. Wiley2
(1)
Victoria College, Victoria, TX, USA
(2)
Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
 

Now that you can describe the sample data sets, it is time to move toward analyzing your data. Progressing from descriptive to inferential statistics takes some thought and time. To recap, you have already learned a lot about using R. Then, you learned how to manipulate data and even describe the data through various summaries (numerical and graphical). Inferential statistics is the science and art of using samples to understand and ...

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