[R] Book recommendation for newbie to stats and R?

2006-10-18 Thread George W. Gilchrist
Kevin, I teach biostats and have used many of these books and all are good. Mick Crawley's Statistics: An Introduction using R would be my first choice. It is clear, clever, and makes good use of the strengths of R. Crawley has a larger book entitled Statistical Computing that is also

Re: [R] Book recommendation for newbie to stats and R?

2006-10-18 Thread bogdan romocea
. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zembower, Kevin Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 10:08 AM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] Book recommendation for newbie to stats and R? I'm trying to learn statistics and R at the same time. I have

[R] Book recommendation for newbie to stats and R?

2006-10-17 Thread Zembower, Kevin
I'm trying to learn statistics and R at the same time. I have an undergraduate science degree and one year of calculus (30 years ago), but never took a stats course. I hope to take some stats courses in the next year, but thought I would start to see how much I could teach myself. I work for an

Re: [R] Book recommendation for newbie to stats and R?

2006-10-17 Thread BBands
On 10/17/06, Zembower, Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I work for an organization that analyses behavior change communication programs regarding HIV/AIDS and reproductive health. A typical question we're trying to answer is, Watching which television programs in South Africa is related to an

Re: [R] Book recommendation for newbie to stats and R?

2006-10-17 Thread Ben Fairbank
will get you off on the right foot. Good luck! Ben Fairbank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zembower, Kevin Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 9:08 AM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] Book recommendation for newbie to stats and R? I'm