Modern Applied Statistics With S-PLUS [Hardcover]

William N. Venables (Author), Brian D. Ripley (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0387988254 | ISBN-13: 978-0387988252 | Publication Date: June 8, 2001 | Edition: 3rd

S is a powerful environment for the statistical and graphical analysis of data. It provides the tools to implement many statistical ideas that have been made possible by the widespread availability of workstations having good graphics and computational capabilities. This book is a guide to using S environments to perform statistical analyses and provides both an introduction to the use of S and a course in modern statistical methods. Implementations of S are available commercially in S-PLUS(R) workstations and as the Open Source R for a wide range of computer systems. The aim of this book is to show how to use S as a powerful and graphical data analysis system. Readers are assumed to have a basic grounding in statistics, and so the book is intended for would-be users of S-PLUS or R and both students and researchers using statistics. Throughout, the emphasis is on presenting practical problems and full analyses of real data sets. Many of the methods discussed are state of the art approaches to topics such as linear, nonlinear and smooth regression models, tree-based methods, multivariate analysis, pattern recognition, survival analysis, time series and spatial statistics. Throughout modern techniques such as robust methods, non-parametric smoothing and bootstrapping are used where appropriate. This fourth edition is intended for users of S-PLUS 6.0 or R 1.5.0 or later. A substantial change from the third edition is updating for the current versions of S-PLUS and adding coverage of R. The introductory material has been rewritten to emphasis the import, export and manipulation of data. Increased computational power allows even more computer-intensive methods to be used, and methods such as GLMMs, MARS, SOM and support vector machines are considered.

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"Anyone who seriously uses S-Plus and wishes a practical introduction to modern techniques should buy a copy" - Chance --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 520 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 3rd edition (June 8, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0387988254
• ISBN-13: 978-0387988252
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,007,679 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The S-Plus "Mustard" book, December 18, 1999

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This review is from: Modern Applied Statistics With S-PLUS (Hardcover)

This is an *essential* tool for anyone using S-Plus. The book is well laid out, supplementing and complementing the manuals. In addition, the authors provide libraries that expand many of the routines in S-Plus. If you use S-Plus and do not program directly in S yourself, this book should be on your shelf.

14 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good introduction to using S-Plus, August 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Modern Applied Statistics With S-PLUS (Hardcover)

This is a fantastic book on using S-Plus. I would have given it 5 stars had its treatment been given in a more clear way. Nonetheless the S language is well presented and many statistical analyses are sampled using S-Plus. In fact, this is also a strong applied stats book, with S code given for each topic.

13 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the 'bible' for Splus users/lovers, July 8, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Modern Applied Statistics with S-PLUS (Hardcover)

this is the 'bible' of numerous statistician using Splus or R. Ripley and Venables are two of the builders of S/Splus and they're still involved in many projects regarding this topic. The second edition is very complete and make Splus computing easier.