Dear Marsh, On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Marsh Feldman <marshfeld...@cox.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a bright, diligent second-year graduate student who wants to learn > statistics and R and will, in effect, be taking a tutorial from me on these > subjects. (If you've seen some of my questions on this list, please don't > laugh.) As an undergrad he majored in philosophy, so this will be his first > foray into computer programming and statistics. > > I'm thinking of having him use "Introductory Statistics with R" by Peter > Dalgaard, but I'm unable to tell if the book requires calculus. I don't > think this student knows calculus, so this would be a deal breaker. Can > someone tell me if my student can get through this book starting out with > just knowledge of algebra?
Short answer: Yes. The long answer is also Yes. (Not really, it depends on what you mean by 'get through'.) > > Also, do you have other suggestions for texts, manuals, web sites, etc. that > would introduce statistics and R simultaneously? Have you seen this? http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?id=books:intrstat Good luck, Jay *************************************************** G. Jay Kerns, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Mathematics & Statistics Youngstown State University Youngstown, OH 44555-0002 USA Office: 1035 Cushwa Hall Phone: (330) 941-3310 Office (voice mail) -3302 Department -3170 FAX VoIP: gjke...@ekiga.net E-mail: gke...@ysu.edu http://people.ysu.edu/~gkerns/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
