R Programming By Example

The examples in this book

To end this introductory chapter, I want to introduce you to the three examples we will develop throughout the rest of the book. The first one is the Brexit Votes example, in which we are going to use real Brexit votes data, and, with descriptive statistics and linear models, we will attempt to understand the population dynamics at play behind the results. If you're not familiar with Brexit, it is the popular term for the prospective withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union after a referendum which took place on June 23, 2016 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit). This example will be developed through Chapter 2, Understanding Votes with Descriptive Statistics, and Chapter 3, Predicting Votes with ...