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R for Data Science Cookbook (n)

By : Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu)
Book Image

R for Data Science Cookbook (n)

By: Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu)

Overview of this book

This cookbook offers a range of data analysis samples in simple and straightforward R code, providing step-by-step resources and time-saving methods to help you solve data problems efficiently. The first section deals with how to create R functions to avoid the unnecessary duplication of code. You will learn how to prepare, process, and perform sophisticated ETL for heterogeneous data sources with R packages. An example of data manipulation is provided, illustrating how to use the “dplyr” and “data.table” packages to efficiently process larger data structures. We also focus on “ggplot2” and show you how to create advanced figures for data exploration. In addition, you will learn how to build an interactive report using the “ggvis” package. Later chapters offer insight into time series analysis on financial data, while there is detailed information on the hot topic of machine learning, including data classification, regression, clustering, association rule mining, and dimension reduction. By the end of this book, you will understand how to resolve issues and will be able to comfortably offer solutions to problems encountered while performing data analysis.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
R for Data Science Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Getting confidence intervals


Using confidence intervals allows us to estimate the interval range of unknown parameters in the data. In this recipe, we will teach you methods that can help obtain confidence intervals in R.

Getting ready

Ensure that you installed R on your operating system.

How to do it…

Perform the following steps to obtain confidence intervals:

  1. Let's first generate a normal distribution using the rnorm function:

    >set.seed(123)
    >population<- rnorm(1000, mean = 10, sd = 3)
    >plot(dens, col="red", main="A density plot of normal distribution")
    

    Figure 1: A density plot of normal distribution

  2. Next, we will sample 100 samples out of the population:

    >samp<- sample(population, 100)
    >mean(samp)
    [1] 10.32479
    >sd(samp)
    [1] 3.167692
    
  3. At this point, we can obtain the Z-score at a confidence of 99%:

    > 1 - 0.01 / 2
    [1] 0.995
    
    >qnorm(0.995)
    [1] 2.575829
    
  4. We can now compute the standard deviation error and estimate the upper and lower bounds of the population mean:

    &gt...