1st Edition

Statistical Practice for Data Science With Hands-On Illustrations Using R

282 Pages 48 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

282 Pages 48 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

282 Pages 48 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

Statistical Practice for Data Science: with Hands-on Illustrations using R  is a comprehensive guide designed to equip students from diverse fields—engineering, science, and the biological, physical, and social sciences—with the statistical tools and techniques essential for data science. This book bridges the gap between theoretical concepts and practical applications, offering a clear and... Read more

Preface

Chapter 1: Useful Preliminaries

Chapter 2: Data Visualization

Chapter 3: Two Sample Inference

Chapter 4: Fixed Effects Analysis of Variance Models

Chapter 5: Linear Regression Analysis

Chapter 6: Linear Regression – More Topics

Chapter 7: Generalized Linear Models (GLIM)

Chapter 8: More on GLIM and Related Methods

Chapter 9: Some Extensions to ANOVA Models

Chapter 10: Models for Dependent Data

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Nalini Ravishanker is Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut (UConn), Storrs. She has a PhD in Statistics and Operations Research from the Stern School of Business, New York University, and a B.Sc. in Statistics from Presidency College, Madras, India. Her primary area of research is time series analysis with applications in several domains.

G. Asha is Senior Professor in the Department of Statistics at Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, Kerala, India. She has a MPhil in Statistics from University of Kerala and Ph D in Statistics from Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin. Her primary area of research is life time data analysis.

Haim Bar Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut (UConn), Storrs. He has a PhD in Statistics from Cornell University, MSc in Computer Science from Yale University, and BSc in Mathematics from the Hebrew University. His areas of interest include high-dimensional models, and applications in genomics.