R in Action

Robert Kabacoff (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

608 Seiten

2015 | 2nd edition
Manning Publications (Verlag)
978-1-61729-138-8 (ISBN)

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DESCRIPTION

R is a powerful language for statistical computing and graphics that can handle virtually any data-crunching task. It runs on all important platforms and provides thousands of useful specialized modules and utilities. This makes R a great way to get meaningful information from mountains of raw data.

R in Action, Second Edition is language tutorial focused on practical problems. Written by a research methodologist, it takes a direct and modular approach to quickly give readers the information they need to produce useful results. Focusing on realistic data analyses and a comprehensive integration of graphics, it follows the steps that real data analysts use to acquire their data, get it into shape, analyze it, and produce meaningful results that they can provide to clients.

RETAIL SELLING POINTS

Step-by-step guide to practical data analysis

Gives quick access to the R language

Written by seasoned researcher

Uses over 130 graphics

AUDIENCE

This book is for social scientists, medical and pharmaceutical researchers, professors and students in quantitative fields, data analysts, data mining specialists, and statistical programmers who have a sense of what they want to do, but not how to do it in R.

ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY

R is a powerful language for statistical computing and graphics that can handle virtually any data-crunching task. It runs on all important platforms and provides thousands of useful specialized modules and

AUTHOR BIO Robert I. Kabacoff, is a research methodologist, statistical consultant, and software developer with over 25 years of experience working with organizations in health care, financial services, manufacturing, behavioral sciences, government, and academia. As Vice President of Research for Management Research Group, he provides research and statistical programming for organizations in North America, Western Europe, Africa, and the Pacific Rim. For the past four years, he has managed an R tutorial website that receives approximately 11,000 visitors a day.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.6.2015
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	190 x 235 mm
Gewicht	900 g
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Datenbanken ► Data Warehouse / Data Mining
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Programmiersprachen / -werkzeuge
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Software Entwicklung
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Computerprogramme / Computeralgebra
ISBN-10	1-61729-138-2 / 1617291382
ISBN-13	978-1-61729-138-8 / 9781617291388
Zustand	Neuware