On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 18:56 -0400, Charles Annis, P.E. wrote: > Recommending a good book on statistics is like recommending a good book on > sports: Which sports? > > A good book for learning statistical concepts (and learning R at the same > time), one that assumes you understand algebra but are new to statistics, is > Peter Dalgaard's _Introductory Statistics with R_ (Springer 2002). The > writing is relaxed and succinct, not condescending as some texts might > appear to a newcomer. It's just a good book.
I couldn't agree more. A number of my colleagues have bought Peter Dalgaard's book to a) learn some R and b) learn some statistics. They have found it very useful indeed. G > > Charles Annis, P.E. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > phone: 561-352-9699 > eFax: 614-455-3265 > http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Nielsen > Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 6:36 PM > To: Berton Gunter > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [R] Statitics Textbook - any recommendation? > > Excellent characterization. > > MASS is a very good book, but I'm not sure I would describe it as a > statistics textbook, much less one of the "basic" variety. While I > certainly wouldn't presume to speak for Prof. Ripley and Dr. Venables, > it seems unlikely their intent in writing MASS was to teach > statistics, but rather, as the name of the book might suggest, to > explain how S+ (and R) can be applied to modern statistical > techniques. My experience with this book is that it assumes > considerable background knowledge. > > By all means, buy MASS, but if you need guidance on the how and why of > statistical techniques, you may wish to shop Amazon to find a > supplement. > > Regards, > > Mike > > On 9/20/06, Berton Gunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not withstanding Prof. Heiberger's admirable enthusiasm, I think the > > canonical answer is probably MASS (Modern Applied Statistics with S) by > > Venables and Ripley. It is very comprehensive, but depending on your > > background, you may find it too telegraphic. > > > > -- Bert Gunter > > Genentech Non-Clinical Statistics > > South San Francisco, CA > > > > "The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning > > process." - George E. P. Box > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Iuri Gavronski > > > Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 1:22 PM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: [R] Statitics Textbook - any recommendation? > > > > > > I would like to buy a basic statistics book (experimental design, > > > sampling, ANOVA, regression, etc.) with examples in R. Or > > > download it > > > in PDF or html format. > > > I went to the CRAN contributed documentation, but there were only R > > > textbooks, that is, textbooks where R is the focus, not the > > > statistics. And I would like to find the opposite. > > > Other text I am trying to find is multivariate data analysis (EFA, > > > cluster, mult regression, MANOVA, etc.) with examples with R. > > > Any recommendation? > > > > > > Thank you in advance, > > > > > > Iuri. > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > [email protected] 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. > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [email protected] 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. > > > > > > -- > Regards, > > Mike Nielsen > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] 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. > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] 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. -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% *Note new Address and Fax and Telephone numbers from 10th April 2006* %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 ECRC [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 UCL Department of Geography Pearson Building [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk Gower Street London, UK [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/cv/ WC1E 6BT [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
