Foundational and Applied Statistics for Biologists Using R by Ken Aho (2013 or 2014)
-Great up-to-date text for all users. Lots of ecology examples and datasets for teaching. https://www.amazon.com/Foundational-Applied-Statistics-Biologists-Using/dp/1439873380/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480275619&sr=8-1&keywords=r+for+biologists+Ken+aho On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Megan Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > They might be fine, but there are actually some really fantastic books > targeted explicitly at biology and ecology based subjects. > Depending on what you are teaching, I can recommend a number of books that > all come with R code > > For the basics (of both R and statistics), you cant go past the R bible > (written by an ecologist): https://www.amazon.co.uk/R-Book-Michael-J- > Crawley/dp/0470510242 > Analysing ecological Data (Zuur et al) http://www.highstat.com/book1.htm - > some of the code is a tiny bit outdated, but easy to update (or failing > that, use an R Version prior to 3.15.0 for teaching purposes. > Hedley Grantham’s new ggplot2 book is amazing for graphs: > http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/ > For bayesian statistics, its gelman and hill. > > Hope this helps, > Megan > > *Quantitative Ecology and Decision Science* > The University of Hawaii at Manoa > E: [email protected] > M: +18084626449 > T: @ultimatemegs > Web: https://mdbarnes.wordpress.com/ > > > > On 26 Nov. 2016, at 7:47 pm, Nathan Brouwer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > -- **************************************** Doctoral Candidate Department of Biological Sciences BLDG 66, NURS 210 Idaho State University Pocatello, ID 83209-8007 ***************************** "Talent develops in quiet, Character in the torrent of the world." * --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe*
