Description
Product ID: | 9780367436674 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Series: | Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science |
Title: | Probability, Statistics, and Data |
Subtitle: | A Fresh Approach Using R |
Authors: | Author: Bryan Clair, Darrin Speegle |
Page Count: | 500 |
Subjects: | Probability and statistics, Probability & statistics |
Description: | This book is a first course in probability and statistics using R. The book assumes a mathematical background of Calculus II, though much of the book can be read with a much lower level of mathematics. The book incorporates R throughout all sections via simulations, data wrangling and/or data visualization. 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. 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. The exercises in the book have been added to to the free and open online homework system myopenmath (https://www.myopenmath.com/) which may be useful to instructors. |
Imprint Name: | Chapman & Hall/CRC |
Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2021-11-26 |