[R-sig-teaching] R-sig-teaching Digest, Vol 54, Issue 3

[Wayne Smith]

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Wayne Smith, Ph.D.
Department of Management
CSU Northridge

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>     1. Re: Illustrating the case studies in the "Statistical Sleuth"
>        using R (Manuel Sp?nola)
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> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 09:58:06 -0600
> From: Manuel Sp?nola <mspinola10 at gmail.com>
> To: Nicholas Horton <nhorton at smith.edu>
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> Subject: Re: [R-sig-teaching] Illustrating the case studies in the
> 	"Statistical Sleuth" using R
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> Very useful. Nice work.
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> Best,
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> Manuel
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> 2012/8/9 Nicholas Horton <nhorton at smith.edu>
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>> My summer students and I have created a series of files to help describe
>> how to undertake analyses introduced as examples in the Second Edition of
>> the Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (2002), the
>> excellent text by Fred Ramsey and Dan Schafer.  If you are using this book,
>> or would like to see straightforward ways to undertake analyses in R for
>> intro and intermediate statistics courses, these may be of interest.
>>
>> These files can be found at http://www.math.smith.edu/~nhorton/sleuth
>>
>> We have include both formatted pdf files as well as the original knitr
>> files which were used to generate the output. Knitr is an elegant, flexible
>> and fast means to undertake reproducible analysis and dynamic report
>> generation within R and RStudio.
>>
>> This work leverages efforts undertaken by Project MOSAIC, an NSF-funded
>> initiative to improve the teaching of statistics, calculus, science and
>> computing in the undergraduate curriculum. In particular, we utilize the
>> mosaic package, which was written to simplify the use of R for introductory
>> statistics courses. More information can be found at
>> http://www.mosaic-web.org.
>>
>> We've generated these illustrated analyses for chapters 1-6 plus 9-11 and
>> 13, with more chapters to come.  Comments, suggestions and corrections
>> welcomed.
>>
>> Best wishes for the balance of the summer,
>>
>> Nick
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>> Nicholas Horton
>> Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Smith College
>> Clark Science Center, Northampton, MA 01063-0001
>> http://www.math.smith.edu/~nhorton
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