| 25 Recipes for Getting Started with R: Excerpts from the R Cookbook Contributor(s): Teetor, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 1449303234 ISBN-13: 9781449303235 Publisher: O'Reilly Media OUR PRICE: $18.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Data Modeling & Design - Mathematics | Probability & Statistics - General - Computers | Programming - General |
| Dewey: 519.502 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.8" W x 9" (0.25 lbs) 58 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: R is a powerful tool for statistics and graphics, but getting started with this language can be frustrating. This short, concise book provides beginners with a selection of how-to recipes to solve simple problems with R. Each solution gives you just what you need to know to use R for basic statistics, graphics, and regression. You'll find recipes on reading data files, creating data frames, computing basic statistics, testing means and correlations, creating a scatter plot, performing simple linear regression, and many more. These solutions were selected from O'Reilly's R Cookbook, which contains more than 200 recipes for R that you'll find useful once you move beyond the basics. |
Contributor Bio(s): Teetor, Paul: - Paul Teetor is a quantitative developer with Masters degrees in statistics and computer science. He specializes in analytics and software engineering for investment management, securities trading, and risk management. He works with hedge funds, market makers, and portfolio managers in the greater Chicago area. |