An R Companion to Applied Regression

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SAGE Publications, Sep 27, 2018 - Social Science - 608 pages
An R Companion to Applied Regression is a broad introduction to the R statistical computing environment in the context of applied regression analysis. John Fox and Sanford Weisberg provide a step-by-step guide to using the free statistical software R, an emphasis on integrating statistical computing in R with the practice of data analysis, coverage of generalized linear models, and substantial web-based support materials. The Third Edition includes a new chapter on mixed-effects models, new and updated data sets, and a de-emphasis on statistical programming, while retaining a general introduction to basic R programming. The authors have substantially updated both the car and effects packages for R for this new edition, and include coverage of RStudio and R Markdown.
 

Contents

CHAPTER 1 GETTING STARTED WITH R AND RSTUDIO
1
CHAPTER 2 READING AND MANIPULATING DATA
53
CHAPTER 3 EXPLORING AND TRANSFORMING DATA
123
CHAPTER 4 FITTING LINEAR MODELS
173
CHAPTER 5 COEFFICIENT STANDARD ERRORS CONFIDENCE INTERVALS AND HYPOTHESIS TESTS
243
CHAPTER 6 FITTING GENERALIZED LINEAR MODELS
271
CHAPTER 7 FITTING MIXEDEFFECTS MODELS
335
CHAPTER 8 REGRESSION DIAGNOSTICS FOR LINEAR GENERALIZED LINEAR AND MIXEDEFFECTS MODELS
385
CHAPTER 9 DRAWING GRAPHS
437
CHAPTER 10 AN INTRODUCTION TO R PROGRAMMING
477
REFERENCES
539
SUBJECT INDEX
551
DATA SET INDEX
567
PACKAGE INDEX
569
INDEX OF FUNCTIONS AND OPERATORS
571
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John Fox received a BA from the City College of New York and a PhD from the University of Michigan, both in Sociology. He is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, where he was previously the Senator William McMaster Professor of Social Statistics. Prior to coming to McMaster, he was Professor of Sociology, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, and Coordinator of the Statistical Consulting Service at York University in Toronto. Professor Fox is the author of many articles and books on applied statistics, including emph{Applied Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models, Third Edition} (Sage, 2016). He is an elected member of the R Foundation, an associate editor of the Journal of Statistical Software, a prior editor of R News and its successor the R Journal, and a prior editor of the Sage Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences monograph series.

Sanford Weisberg is Professor Emeritus of statistics at the University of Minnesota. He has also served as the director of the University's Statistical Consulting Service, and has worked with hundreds of social scientists and others on the statistical aspects of their research. He earned a BA in statistics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D., also in statistics, from Harvard University, under the direction of Frederick Mosteller. The author of more than 60 articles in a variety of areas, his methodology research has primarily been in regression analysis, including graphical methods, diagnostics, and computing. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and former Chair of its Statistical Computing Section. He is the author or coauthor of several books and monographs, including the widely used textbook Applied Linear Regression, which has been in print for almost forty years.

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