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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)

Two-way ANOVA

We could extend our initial example (a website with different color palettes) to something slightly more complex: instead of having just one factor (color), we could have another one (actually, we could have even more than two). For example, we could add the font type that was used on the website and study how those two factors (color and font type) impact the number of purchases that are made. Unfortunately, this adds an extra complication, because one effect might depend on the levels for the other one: for example, the font type might be relevant to explain the number of purchases, but only when the color is red.

The effects for the color and website are usually referred to as main effects, and the interaction between them is referred to as the interaction effect. Before analyzing the main effects, we should always study the interaction effect first: if it is...