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R Statistics Cookbook

By : Francisco Juretig
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Book Image

R Statistics Cookbook

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By: Francisco Juretig

Overview of this book

R is a popular programming language for developing statistical software. This book will be a useful guide to solving common and not-so-common challenges in statistics. With this book, you'll be equipped to confidently perform essential statistical procedures across your organization with the help of cutting-edge statistical tools. You'll start by implementing data modeling, data analysis, and machine learning to solve real-world problems. You'll then understand how to work with nonparametric methods, mixed effects models, and hidden Markov models. This book contains recipes that will guide you in performing univariate and multivariate hypothesis tests, several regression techniques, and using robust techniques to minimize the impact of outliers in data.You'll also learn how to use the caret package for performing machine learning in R. Furthermore, this book will help you understand how to interpret charts and plots to get insights for better decision making. By the end of this book, you will be able to apply your skills to statistical computations using R 3.5. You will also become well-versed with a wide array of statistical techniques in R that are extensively used in the data science industry.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Semiparametric regression with the SemiPar package

Semiparametric models encompass a huge family of models that have a fully parametric (finite number of parameters) with a nonparametric part. In general, the parametric part will be linear, and the semiparametric part will be treated as nuisance; but this is not always the case. One example where a semiparametric model would be relevant, could be for example modeling the ice-cream sales in terms of the weather and the price. It's likely that the sales-weather relationship is highly nonlinear (sales are really high when the temperature is high, but low when the temperature is moderate), whereas the price-sales one could be quite linear. In that case, we would want to treat the price effect as linear and the rest as nuisance.

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