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Probability, statistics, and data : a fresh approach using R /
This book is a fresh approach to a calculus based, first course in probability and statistics, using R throughout to give a central role to data and simulation. The book introduces probability with Monte Carlo simulation as an essential tool. Simulation makes challenging probability questions quickl...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapman and Hall/CRC,
2021.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Texts in statistical science.
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Full text (WIT users only) |
| Summary: | This book is a fresh approach to a calculus based, first course in probability and statistics, using R throughout to give a central role to data and simulation. The book introduces probability with Monte Carlo simulation as an essential tool. Simulation makes challenging probability questions quickly accessible and easily understandable. Mathematical approaches are included, using calculus when appropriate, but are always connected to experimental computations. Using R and simulation gives a nuanced understanding of statistical inference. The impact of departure from assumptions in statistical tests is emphasized, quantified using simulations, and demonstrated with real data. The book compares parametric and non-parametric methods through simulation, allowing for a thorough investigation of testing error and power. The text builds R skills from the outset, allowing modern methods of resampling and cross validation to be introduced along with traditional statistical techniques. Fifty-two data sets are included in the complementary R package fosdata. Most of these data sets are from recently published papers, so that you are working with current, real data, which is often large and messy. Two central chapters use powerful tidyverse tools (dplyr, ggplot2, tidyr, stringr) to wrangle data and produce meaningful visualizations. Preliminary versions of the book have been used for five semesters at Saint Louis University, and the majority of the more than 400 exercises have been classroom tested. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 500 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781003004899 100300489X 9781000504163 1000504166 9781000504514 1000504514 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Vendor-supplied metadata. |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | Darrin Speegle has 25 years of experience teaching probability and statistics at Saint Louis University, where he is a Professor and the Director of Data Science. He served as the program committee chair on the organizing team for UseR!2020 in St. Louis. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Simons Foundation. Bryan Clair is the Chair of the Mathematics and Statistics Department at Saint Louis University. His research is in topology and combinatorics. His work writing mathematics for general audiences has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Math Horizons, and the SF magazine Strange Horizons. |