I've just gotten through translating my notes for the course in basic statistics for health researchers. I've placed a copy on ftp://blueberry.kubism.ku.dk/priv/R-intro.tgz This is essentially a translation of the Danish notes that I wrote during the Autumn of 1997 for use with Rsept, i.e. roughly R v.50. They lean heavily on the textbook, Altman: Practical Statistics for Medical Research. Chapman and Hall, 1991. For now, this is mainly for information purposes and not for further redistribution. I haven't yet investigated the possibilities of getting it published as a real book (ISBN, y'know), so I wouldn't know what the copyright implications would be. Also, and maybe more importantly, I haven't yet asked anyone for permission to use their data in a publication of any sort. I wouldn't expect any problems in that area (there is no direct reproduction), but one cannot be too sure. In their present state, the notes are full of errors; typos, language and otherwise. I know that and I'm not particularly interested in being told about them at the present stage, since I'll be going over the entire stack with a red pencil anyway. General comments and constructive criticism are welcome, though. A couple of important things have changed in the later versions of R, and I'll be upgrading the student machines to the Win32 version of 0.63.1 (or .2, depending on availability), so the notes are actually already out of date (the predict() examples are particularly bad). [Slightly weird feeling to translate stuff you know is wrong, but I needed to have the work processes separate, and also to have a common base in Danish and English in order to maintain future parallel versions.] The current version (in both languages) also suffers from a haphazard reversion of the anova and regression analysis sections [caused by teacher scheduling problems in the Spring98 semester], which is not really pedagogically sound and introduced a couple of sequencing errors in the examples -- values geting used before they were computed... I'll be putting them back in proper order. I plan to make a proper R package "Rx" out of the extension functions and example/exercise data. A preliminary version (functions and docs only) is in ftp://blueberry.kubism.ku.dk/priv/Rx.tgz The data sets are in ftp://blueberry.kubism.ku.dk/pub/*.txt
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