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Modern Applied Statistics with S | 
 enlarge | Authors: W.n. Venables, B.d. Ripley
Publisher: Springer
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Edition: 4th
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Pages: 512
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0387954570
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.369
EAN: 9780387954578
ASIN: 0387954570
Publication Date: September 2, 2003
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Product Description
S-PLUS is a powerful environment for the statistical and graphical analysis of data. It provides the tools to implement many statistical ideas which have been made possible by the widespread availability of workstations having good graphics and computational capabilities. This book is a guide to using S-PLUS to perform statistical analyses and provides both an introduction to the use of S-PLUS and a course in modern statistical methods. S-PLUS is available for both Windows and UNIX workstations, and both versions are covered in depth. The aim of the book is to show how to use S-PLUS as a powerful and graphical data analysis system. Readers are assumed to have a basic grounding in statistics, and so the book in intended for would-be users of S-PLUS 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 and 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 third edition is intended for users of S-PLUS 4.5, 5.0, 2000 or later, although S-PLUS 3.3/4 are also considered. The major change from the second edition is coverage of the current versions of S-PLUS. The material has been extensively rewritten using new examples and the latest computationally intensive methods. The companion volume on S Programming will provide an in-depth guide for those writing software in the S language. The authors have written several software libraries that enhance S-PLUS; these and all the datasets used are available on the Internet in versions for Windows and UNIX. There are extensive on-line complements covering advanced material, user-contributed extensions, further exercises, and new features of S-PLUS as they are introduced. Dr. Venables is now Statistician with CSRIO in Queensland, having been at the Department of Statistics, University of Adelaide, for many years previously. He has given many short courses on S-PLUS in Australia, Europe, and the USA. Professor Ripley holds the Chair of Applied Statistics at the University of Oxford, and is the author of four other books on spatial statistics, simulation, pattern recognition, and neural networks.
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 Essential Reference May 17, 2008
Who is the books audience? Its a second book. A second book to a theory book. A second book to a textbook. A second book to a your lecture notes. It will never be ~the~ book for a topic by itself, but it just a brilliant job of filling gaps.
I picture it like this: if your going into a graduate program that uses R buy this book and you will use it. 2 out of 3 courses I took in spring semester used R heavily. I am surprised none of the instructors had the line "Recommended for students continuing in R is MASS..." in their syllabus. Because that is exactly what I would say. This is one of those books you want to get early, and keep it around.
It never explains enough of the statistics to stand on its own; however, its coverage of R and R packages is more complete than anything I have found elsewhere. And having got it a year after I first started using R, I am sad I didn't get it sooner =)~
If you're changing topics alot like a student does is it ~the~ desk reference for R? Probably. Maybe I will run into a better one in a few months though? I dunno.. you get it and tell me.
one of the best applied books on statistics that uses S February 22, 2008
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
This text is very popular and frequently cited in the statistics literature. The authors do an outstanding job of displaying modern statistical methods through the S programming language. It is an intermediate level book and certainly worthy of 5 stars.
Excellent, but be aware of what you are buying December 19, 2007
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
This is *the* book to have on S+/R. It provides excellent value for its price (indeed, any price): it is concise, broad, informative. All the same, I think it would be useful to identify intended audience for this book (in my view). First, the book is not for novices in Statistics. You'll learn how to fit generalized linear models in the language, not how and why to apply such models properly. To this end, there are plenty of specific monographies, and the majority of them use R for examples. Just to name a few, Friedman, Hastie, Tibshirani, Harrell, Faraway employ R. Also, this book assume some basic knowledge of programming. R is a more elegant language than Matlab and Thinking in R becomes very natural after some practice. But I have not seen so far a tutorial on "R as a first language". Summing up, this is a great book for undergraduates in Statistics/Engineering and up, who want a comprehensive, usable reference. My only criticism is that since 2002 there have been giant changes in the language. First, R is now the main implementation of the language, with S+ being an industry-supported variant. Second, the S4 object model is here to stay and grow, and is crying for a user-friendly introduction. Lastly, the number of packages is probably twenty times what it was in 2002. SVMs, ensemble methods, shrinkage, sparse representations *are* modern applied statistics, and are underrepresented in the book.
Still, this is a must have for any applied statistician.
 A Course in Applied Statistics October 28, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I started using R to do linear modeling and found that I was using 'library(MASS)' much of the time. MASS, it turns out, stands for Modern Applied Statistics with S. R is a free ware version of S-Plus. I assumed that R is simply S-Plus without the GUI. I was close, but not right. There are some minor differences. This book, written for S also addresses the use of R in the applications presented, and also notes differences between the two, when they exist. I am quite pleased with Venerables and Ripley's book; it presents much of the theoretical background as well as 'command line' code for doing the analyses presented in each chapter. The book assumes the reader has some background in statistics.
The first five chapters are a brief overview of /introduction to S-Plus (or R). These chapters present enough information and examples to make the rest of the book fairly easy to work through.
I got the book primarily to work design of experiments. The chapters on linear statistical models and general linear models were perfectly suited to my needs. Topics like factorial experiments, random and mixed effects, nested designs, partially balanced designs are covered. In addition, techniques of robust analysis and bootstrap methods are presented.
The book covers many other areas - non-linear models, classification, time series, optimization.. I have not worked through any of these topics in the book.
Overall I find Modern Applied Statistics with S to be an excellent book, invaluable if one is using R (I don't have S-Plus) as the vehicle for analyses.
Great reference book August 9, 2007
This is a great programming reference book for S-plus or R. I would imagine any serious programmer in S-plus already has this on his/her desk.
Nice feature about this book:
where S and R differs in grammar, they are labeled very clearly.
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