Foundations of Applied Statistics and R

Author

Thomas E. Love, Ph.D.

Published

2024-09-15 15:28

Preface

Warning

A full draft of this book will be available as soon as possible.

This Preface, and Chapters 1-12 and the Appendix materials are in a sufficiently final form to justify reading them. I’m actively revising Chapters 13-23 and new versions will appear before I declare a complete draft to be available.

This Book

  1. This book is broken down into multiple chapters. Use the table of contents on the left side of the screen to navigate between chapters, or use the right side to navigate within the current chapter.
  2. You can also search the book, using an automated index.
  3. Any of the code provided can be copied to the clipboard using the Copy icon at the top right of the code block.
  4. If, for some awful reason, you want to print or save this document, we recommend waiting until mid-January of 2025, when a “final” version will be available. That final version will remain available until 2025-06-01.

What You’ll Find Here

This book provides a series of examples using R to work through issues that are likely to come up in PQHS/CRSP/MPHP 431. The main purpose is to give 431 students a set of common materials on which to draw during the course. In class, we will sometimes:

  • reiterate points made in this document,
  • amplify what is here,
  • simplify the presentation of things done here,
  • use new examples to show some of the same techniques,
  • refer to issues not mentioned in this document.

We assume that you will read the materials as you need them, just as you will attend classes and try to learn from them. We welcome feedback of all kinds on this document or anything else.

The 431 Course online

The online home for Dr. Love’s 431 course in Fall 2024 is

https://thomaselove.github.io/431-2024

Go there for all information related to the course.

All of the code and text in this book is posted online as HTML, and it is also possible to download a PDF version of the document from the down arrow next to the title at the top left of this screen.

All data and R code related to this book are available to you through our course web site.