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OT: Where's the new Tukey?
3 messages · Larry White, Kjetil Halvorsen, Liviu Andronic
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Venables & Ripley: "Modern Applied Statistics with S (fourth Edition)" (known as MASS) Kjetil
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Larry White <ljw1001 at gmail.com> wrote:
I'm looking for a single book that provides a deep, yet readable
introduction to applied data analysis for general readers.
I'm looking for coverage on things like understanding randomness, "natural
experiments", confounding, causality and correlation, data cleaning and
transforms, lagging, residuals, exploratory graphics, curve fitting,
descriptive stats.... Preferably with examples/case studies that illustrate
the art and craft of data analysis. No proofs or heavy math.
What have you got?
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On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Kjetil Halvorsen
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Venables & Ripley: "Modern Applied Statistics with S (fourth Edition)"
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On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Larry White <ljw1001 at gmail.com> wrote:
I'm looking for a single book that provides a deep, yet readable introduction to applied data analysis for general readers.
In my experience MASS doesn't apply to general readers. More to experts.
I'm looking for coverage on things like understanding randomness, "natural
experiments", confounding, causality and correlation, data cleaning and transforms, lagging, residuals, exploratory graphics, curve fitting, descriptive stats.... Preferably with examples/case studies that illustrate the art and craft of data analysis. No proofs or heavy math.
I'm no expert, but I'm very happy with what I'm reading in 'Statistics' by Freedman et al. (2007) [1]. This book concerns itself with providing the reader with a clear, intuitive and accessible understanding of the fundamentals of statistics. Its hallmark (for better or worse) is the thorough avoidance of formulas or incomprehensible math jargon. (It still contains a lot of proper jargon, but it doesn't assume, as many books do, that the user perfectly understands all the mathematical and statistical terms.) The book requires, essentially, no prerequisites from the reader. As far as I go, very good. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Freedman_(statistician) For a more rigorous, mathematic and advanced approach I like Applied Regression Analysis and GLM by Fox (2008). Whereas the first book is concerned with intuition, this book is focused on application (in the context of regression analysis). To freely quote the author, the text is as accessible as possible without the material being watered down unduly. The prerequisites for reading the book are higher. As far as I'm concerned, the material is clearly exposed and the author tackles head-on a lot of thorny issues that other books leave untouched. I guess this qualifies as "deep, yet readable introduction". This last book can be perfectly complemented with An R Companion to Applier Regression by Fox and Weisberg (2011). This is to teach people R in the context of regression analysis. Regards Liviu