Preface
is the most powerful tool in the known universe for carrying out statistical analysis, and it's free! This book is aimed at those who wish to carry out such work – exploring, plotting, and modelling data – but who do not have much experience in
and/or statistics.
is described from scratch with instructions for loading and getting going with the software in Chapter 01 and a description of its essential elements in Chapter 3. Later chapters discuss statistical methods and are written so that they can be used either as a beginner's guide or as a reference manual on particular procedures in
. The theory behind the analyses is covered in enough depth, we hope, to make it comprehensible but without overburdening the reader with too much mathematics. The datasets used to illustrate various analyses are available at https://www.wiley.com/go/jones/therbook3e.
Using
has become far simpler with the introduction of RStudio, which is also free (other editors are available). RStudio provides ...
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