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Modern Applied Statistics with S by W.N. Venables,Brian D. Ripley
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    • Product code: 20972
    • ISBN: 0387954570, ISBN13: 9780387954578, 506 pages, hardback
      Published by Springer-Verlag New York Inc. on 2002 , 4th Revised edition
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    Description of Modern Applied Statistics with S

    S is a powerful environment for the statistical and graphical analysis of data. It provides the tools to implement many statistical ideas that have been made possible by the widespread availability of workstations having good graphics and computational capabilities. This book is a guide to using S environments to perform statistical analyses and provides both an introduction to the use of S and a course in modern statistical methods. Implementations of S are available commercially in S-PLUS(R) workstations and as the Open Source R for a wide range of computer systems. The aim of this book is to show how to use S as a powerful and graphical data analysis system. Readers are assumed to have a basic grounding in statistics, and so the book is intended for would-be users of S-PLUS or R and both students and researchers using statistics. Throughout, the emphasis is on presenting practical problems and full analyses of real data sets. Many of the methods discussed are state of the art approaches to topics such as linear, nonlinear and smooth regression models, tree-based methods, multivariate analysis, pattern recognition, survival analysis, time series and spatial statistics.
    Throughout modern techniques such as robust methods, non-parametric smoothing and bootstrapping are used where appropriate. This fourth edition is intended for users of S-PLUS 6.0 or R 1.5.0 or later. A substantial change from the third edition is updating for the current versions of S-PLUS and adding coverage of R. The introductory material has been rewritten to emphasis the import, export and manipulation of data. Increased computational power allows even more computer-intensive methods to be used, and methods such as GLMMs.

    Contents of Modern Applied Statistics with S

    Preface
    Typographical Conventions

    1. Introduction
    1.1 A Quick Overview of S
    1.2 Using S
    1.3 An Introductory Session
    1.4 What Next?

    2. Data Manipulation
    2.1 Objects
    2.2 Connections
    2.3 Data Manipulation
    2.4 Tables and Cross-Classification

    3. The S Language
    3.1 Language Layout
    3.2 More on S Objects
    3.3 Arithmetical Expressions
    3.4 Character Vector Operations
    3.5 Formatting and Printing
    3.6 Calling Conventions for Functions
    3.7 Model Formulae
    3.8 Control Structures
    3.9 Array and Matrix Operations
    3.10 Introduction to Classes and Methods

    4. Graphics
    4.1 Graphics Devices
    4.2 Basic Plotting Functions
    4.3 Enhancing Plots
    4.4 Fine Control of Graphics
    4.5 Trellis Graphics

    5. Univariate Statistics
    5.1 Probability Distributions
    5.2 Generating Random Data
    5.3 Data Summaries
    5.4 Classical Univariate Statistics
    5.5 Robust Summaries
    5.6 Density Estimation
    5.7 Bootstrap and Permutation Methods

    6. Linear Statistical Models
    6.1 An Analysis of Covariance Example
    6.2 Model Formulae and Model Matrices
    6.3 Regression Diagnostics
    6.4 Safe Prediction
    6.5 Robust and Resistant Regression
    6.6 Bootstrapping Linear Models
    6.7 Factorial Designs and Designed Experiments
    6.8 An Unbalanced Four-Way Layout
    6.9 Predicting Computer Performance
    6.10 Multiple Comparisons

    7. Generalized Linear Models
    7.1 Functions for Generalized Linear Modelling
    7.2 Binomial Data
    7.3 Poisson and Multinomial Models
    7.4 A Negative Binomial Family
    7.5 Over-Dispersion in Binomial and PoissonGLMs

    8. Non-Linear and Smooth Regression
    8.1 An Introductory Example
    8.2 Fitting Non-Linear Regression Models
    8.3 Non-Linear Fitted Model Objects and Method Functions
    8.4 Confidence Intervals for Parameters
    8.5 Profile

    8.6 Constrained Non-Linear Regression
    8.7 One-Dimensional Curve-Fitting
    8.8 Additive Models
    8.9 Projection-Pursuit Regression
    8.10 Neural Networks
    8.11Conclusions

    9. Tree-Based Methods
    9.1 Partitioning Methods
    9.2 Implementation in rpart
    9.3 Implementation in tree

    10. Random and Mixed Effects
    10.1 Linear Models
    10.2 Classic Nested Designs
    10.3 Non-Linear Mixed Effects Models
    10.4 Generalized Linear Mixed Models
    10.5 GEE Models

    1.1 Exploratory Multivariate Analysis
    11.1 Visualization Methods
    11.2 Cluster Analysis
    11.3 Factor Analysis
    11.4 Discrete Multivariate Analysis

    12. Classification
    12.1 Discriminant Analysis
    12.2 Classification Theory
    12.3 Non-Parametric Rules
    12.4 Neural Networks
    12.5 Support Vector Machines
    12.6 Forensic Glass Example
    12.7 Calibration Plots

    13. Survival Analysis
    13.1 Estimators of Survivor Curves
    13.2 Parametric Models
    13.3 Cox Proportional Hazards Model
    13.4 Further Examples

    14. Time Series Analysis
    14.1 Second-Order Summaries
    14.2 ARIMA Models
    14.3 Seasonality
    14.4 Nottingham Temperature Data
    14.5 Regression with Autocorrelated Errors
    14.6 Models for Financial Series

    15. Spatial Statistics
    15.1 Spatial Interpolation and Smoothing
    15.2 Kriging
    15.3 Point Process Analysis

    16. Optimization
    16.1 Univariate Functions
    16.2 Special-Purpose Optimization Functions
    16.3 GeneralOptimization

    Appendices

    A. Implementation-Specific Details
    A.1 Using S-PLUS under Unix / Linux
    A.2 Using S-PLUS under Windows
    A.3 Using R under Unix / Linux
    A.4 Using R under Windows
    A.5 For Emacs Users

    B. The S-PLUS GUI

    C. Datasets, Software and Libraries
    C.1 Our Software
    C.2 Using Libraries

    References
    Index


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