Statistical software. The R environment ; Installation and use of R ; Basic operations ; Data frames -- Exploratory data analysis (EDA). Expected value ; Variance ; Confidence intervals ; Summary tables ; Plots ; Distribution plots ; Scatter plots ; Box plots ; Lattice plots ; Interaction plots ; Bar plots ; Paired plots ; 3D plots ; Plots with whiskers ; Curves -- Statistical modelling. Regression model ; General linear model ; Generalized linear model ; Searching for the "correct" model ; Model selection ; Model diagnosis -- The first trial. An example ; EDA ; Presumed model ; Statistical analysis ; ANOVA table of Type I ; Nonlinear trends ; Removal of model terms ; Comparison of levels using contrasts ; Contrasts and the model parameterization ; Posterior simplification ; Diagnosis of the final model -- Systematic part. Regression ; ANOVA and ANODEV ; ANCOVA and ANCODEV ; Syntax of the systematic part -- Random part. Continuous measurements ; Counts and frequencies ; Relative frequencies -- Gaussian distribution. Description of LM and GLM ; Regression ; Weighted regression ; Multiple regression ; Two-way ANOVA ; One-way ANCOVA -- Gamma and lognormal distributions. Description of the Gamma model ; Description of the lognormal model ; Regression ; Two-way ANODEV ; Two-way ANCOVA -- Poisson distribution. Description of the Poisson model ; One-way ANODEV ; Overdispersion and underdispersion ; Multiple regression ; One-way ANCODEV ; Three-way ANODEV (Contingency table) -- Negative-bionomial distribution. Description of the negative-bionomial model ; One-way ANODEV -- Bionomial distribution. Description of bionomial model ; Two-way ANODEV ; Overdispersion and underdispersion ; Regression ; One-way ANCODEV ; Binary one-way ANCODEV
Summary
Book written "for people who have only a basic knowledge of statistics (for example, people who have attended only a Basic statistics/Biostatistics course) but who need to correctly analyse the data resulting from their observations or experiments"--Page IX
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-238) and index