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This third edition of Braun and Murdoch's bestselling textbook now includes discussion of the use and design principles of the tidyverse packages in R, including expanded coverage of ggplot2, and R Markdown. The expanded simulation chapter introduces the Box-Muller and Metropolis-Hastings algorithms. New examples and exercises have been added throughout.…
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From well-known authorities in the R-sphere (including a former R Core Team member), this is a long-standing text whose first edition was one of the early books intended to teach R to beginners. It provides concise instructions and examples on how R is used as a programming language before focusing on 'number-crunching' statistical methods that are typically seen as computationally intensive. One of the notable features of this book is the statistical methods at hand are not just illustrated using 'black-box' code--the reader is provided with the necessary mathematical detail to understand what's going on behind the scenes for those…
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