Mathematics 363

Introduction to Statistical Methods

Fall 2009

Resource Page

R Manuals and Guides

Downloads and web interfaces

• The R Project for Statistical Computing. R, free statistical analysis package developed by Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka, is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be considered as a different implementation of S.
• General Rweb Interface. Rweb is a Web based interface to R that takes the submitted code, runs R on the code (in batch mode), and returns the output (printed and graphical).

Manuals

• SimpleR: Using R for Introductory Statistics by John Verzani.
• R for Beginners by Emmanuel Paradis.
• Introductory Statistics with R (first edition) by Peter Dalgaard from the Springer Link.

Handouts

• R as a basic statistical calculator for obtaining p-values and plotting probability distributions (6 page pdf file) by Bruce Walsh.
• R reference card by Jonathan Baron.
• R reference card by Tom Short.

Textbooks

• Investigating Statistical Concepts, Applications, and Methods by Beth L. Chance and Allan J. Rossman
• Probability and Statistics by Morris H. DeGroot and Mark J. Schervish
• Stats: Data and Models by Richard D. De Veaux, Paul F. Velleman, David E. Bock
• Stat Labs: Mathematical Statistics Through Applications by Deborah Nolan and Terry P. Speed
• Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis by John A. Rice

On-line Resources

• Correlation and Regression by Philip B. Stark
• Java Applets provided by James W. Hardin
• Java applets for power and sample size by Russ Lenth

Tables

• Normal Distribution
• t Distribution
• Chi-square Distribution

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