[R] ANNOUNCEMENT: 20% discount on the most recent R books from Chapman & Hall/CRC!

Calver, Rob Rob.Calver at informa.com
Tue Jun 16 14:16:28 CEST 2009


Take advantage of a 20% discount on the most recent R books from Chapman & Hall/CRC! 

We are pleased to offer our latest books on R at a 20% discount through our new website. To take advantage of this offer, simply visit http://www.crcpress.com/, choose your titles and insert code 281DW in the 'Promotion Code' field at checkout. Standard shipping is also free on all orders from CRCPress.com!

*** NEW TITLES ***

SAS and R: Data Management, Statistical Analysis, and Graphics

Ken Kleinman, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA and Nicholas. J Horton, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA 
  
Publication Date:  July 2009 
Number of Pages:  360

This book shows how equivalent statistical methods can be applied in either SAS or R, enabling users of each software to learn how to apply the methods in the other. It covers data management, simple statistical procedures, modeling and regression, and graphics. Each section begins with a brief introduction to the procedures and then presents the code for each software side-by-side. The book provides detailed worked examples together with output from the software to illustrate how the methods are applied in practice. It also includes an index for both SAS and R, which will be useful to a wide range of users. 

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Introduction to Scientific Programming and Simulation Using R

Owen Jones, Robert Maillardet and Andrew Robinson, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia 

Publication Date: March 2009
Number of Pages: 472

This book teaches the skills needed to perform scientific programming while also introducing stochastic modelling. Stochastic modelling in particular, and mathematical modelling in general, are intimately linked to scientific programming because the numerical techniques of scientific programming enable the practical application of mathematical models to real-world problems. Assuming no prior knowledge of programming or probability, the book is organised into four main sections, covering Programming in R, A primer on numerical mathematics, A self-contained introduction to probability theory and Simulation. Unlike most guides to R, this volume is not about the application of statistical techniques, but rather shows how to turn algorithms into code. It is for those who want to make tools, not just use them. 

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An Introduction to Statistical Inference and its Applications with R

Michael W. Trosset, University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A. 
 
Publication Date: June 2009
Number of Pages: 504

With an emphasis on explaining how and why statistical methods are used to analyze data, this book introduces several important procedures: one and two sample location problems, one way analysis of variance, and simple linear regression. The book presents numerous applications and supporting datasets throughout along with historical background to illustrate the material. Offering a modern approach that focuses on the interpretation of data, it features an appendix that provides instruction on the use of R as well as datasets and simulation. In addition, R code is available for download on the web.

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A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R, Second Edition

Brian S. Everitt, King's College, University of London, UK and Torsten Hothorn, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany

Publication Date:  July 2009 
Number of Pages:  376 

Like its predecessor, this second edition provides a guide to data analysis using the R system for statistical computing. This edition contains new chapters on graphical displays, generalized additive models, and simultaneous inference as well as a new section on generalized linear mixed models that completes the discussion on the analysis of longitudinal data where the response variable does not have a normal distribution. The authors include new examples and more exercises in several chapters. They also offer a new version of the HSAUR package (HSAUR2), which is available from CRAN.

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Computational Statistics: An Introduction to R

Günther Sawitzki, StatLab Heidelberg, Germany
 
Publication Date: January 2009
Number of Pages: 264

Suitable for a compact course or self-study, this book illustrates how to use the freely available R software package for data analysis, statistical programming, and graphics. Integrating R code and examples throughout, the text only requires basic knowledge of statistics and computing. It covers one-sample analysis and distribution diagnostics, regression, two-sample problems and comparison of distributions, and multivariate analysis. It uses a range of examples to demonstrate how R can be employed to tackle statistical problems. In addition, the handy appendix includes a collection of R language elements and functions, serving as a quick reference and starting point to access the rich information that comes bundled with R. 

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Introduction to Data Technologies

Paul Murrell, The University of Auckland, New Zealand  

Publication Date: February 2009
Number of Pages: 418

Providing key information on how to work with research data, this book presents ideas and techniques for performing critical, behind-the-scenes tasks that take up so much time and effort yet typically receive little attention in formal education. With a focus on computational tools, the book shows readers how to improve their awareness of what tasks can be achieved and describes the correct approach to perform these tasks. The author first discusses how to write computer code using HTML as a concrete example. He then covers a variety of data storage topics, including different file formats, XML, and the structure and design issues of relational databases. After illustrating how to extract data from a relational database using SQL, the book presents tools and techniques for searching, sorting, tabulating, and manipulating data. It also introduces some very basic programming concepts as well as the R language for statistical computing. Each of these topics has supporting chapters that offer reference material on HTML, CSS, XML, DTD, SQL, R, and regular expressions. 

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Hidden Markov Models for Time Series: An Introduction Using R

Walter Zucchini,  University of Gottingen, Germany and Iain L. MacDonald,  University of Cape Town, South Africa 

Publication Date:  April 2009 
Number of Pages:  288 

This book applies hidden Markov models (HMMs) to a wide range of time series types, from continuous-valued, circular, and multivariate series to binary data, bounded and unbounded counts, and categorical observations. It also discusses how to employ the freely available computing environment R to carry out computations for parameter estimation, model selection and checking, decoding, and forecasting. After presenting the simple Poisson HMM, the book covers estimation, forecasting, decoding, prediction, model selection, and Bayesian inference. Through examples and applications, the authors describe how to extend and generalize the basic model so it can be applied in a rich variety of situations. They also provide R code for some of the examples, enabling the use of the codes in similar applications.

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Combinatorial Pattern Matching Algorithms in Computational Biology Using Perl and R

Gabriel Valiente, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain 

Publication Date:  April 2009 
Number of Pages:  368 

Emphasizing the search for patterns within and between biological sequences, trees, and graphs, this book shows how combinatorial pattern matching algorithms can solve computational biology problems that arise in the analysis of genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, metabolomic, and interactomic data. It implements the algorithms in Perl and R, two widely used scripting languages in computational biology. The book supplies a comprehensive view of the whole field of combinatorial pattern matching from a computational biology perspective. Along with thorough discussions of each biological problem, it includes detailed algorithmic solutions in pseudo-code, full Perl and R implementation, and pointers to other software, such as those on CPAN and CRAN.

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*** OTHER TITLES ***

R Programming for Bioinformatics

Robert Gentleman, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, U.S.A. 

Publication Date: January 2009
Number of Pages: 328

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Statistical Computing with R

Maria L. Rizzo, Bowling Green State Univ., Ohio, U.S.A. 

Publication Date: 2008
Number of Pages: 416

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Probability and Statistics with R

Maria Dolores Ugarte and Ana F. Militino, both of Public University of Navarre, Pamplona, Spain, and Alan Arnholt, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, U.S.A. 
 
Publication Date: 2008
Number of Pages: 728
	
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Introduction to Probability with R

Kenneth P. Baclawski, Northeastern University, Boston, MA  U.S.A. 

Publication Date: 2008
Number of Pages: 384

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Interactive Graphics for Data Analysis: Principles and Examples

Martin Theus, Munich, Germany and Simon Urbanek, Madison, NJ, U.S.A. 

Publication Date: January 2009
Number of Pages: 290

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