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Name: Collaborative Statistics Using R
ID: col11219
Language: English (en)
Summary: Collaborative Statistics Using R is designed to introduce students to basic ideas of statistics while simultaneously teaching them how to use some of the basic functions in the open-source statistics project, R. The ultimate goal of this collection is to gradually add as many chapters from the Collaborative Statistics textbook with updated instructions on how to use R for the calculations.
Collection Subtype: Textbook
Subject: Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords: r, r-project, statistics
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 3.0
Authors: Ananda Mahto (ananda@mahto.info)
Copyright Holders: Ananda Mahto (ananda@mahto.info)
Maintainers: Ananda Mahto (ananda@mahto.info)
Latest version: 1.13 (history)
First publication date: Aug 10, 2010 2:00 am GMT-5
Last revision to collection: Nov 23, 2012 11:04 am US/Central

Version History

Version: 1.14 Mar 18, 2013 3:17 am GMT-5 by Ananda Mahto
Changes: 
The other PDF styles were creating problems in the output, particularly in the answers section, so reverted to standard LaTeX
Version: 1.13 Nov 23, 2012 11:04 am US/Central by Ananda Mahto Currently viewing this version.
Changes: 
Added section on contingency tables in R
Version: 1.12 Nov 22, 2012 3:45 am US/Central by Ananda Mahto
Changes: 
Added probability topics (with no modifications). Will probably add section fro prop tables from R.
Version: 1.11 Nov 22, 2012 3:06 am US/Central by Ananda Mahto
Changes: 
Trying new layout options
Version: 1.10 Sep 12, 2012 12:04 pm GMT-5 by Ananda Mahto
Changes: 
Added skewness, sd, and var
Version: 1.9 Sep 12, 2012 8:45 am GMT-5 by Ananda Mahto
Changes: 
Added new chapters and testing a less compact line spacing
Version: 1.8 Sep 12, 2012 3:11 am GMT-5 by Ananda Mahto
Changes: 
Handbook size test again.
Version: 1.7 Jan 4, 2011 9:29 pm US/Central by Ananda Mahto
Changes: 
Reverted to 8.5x11 layout. If 6x9 layout is to be used, all R code must be reformatted to about 50 characters per line--as it is (80 characters per line) some of the content gets truncated.
Version: 1.6 Jan 2, 2011 5:36 am US/Central by Ananda Mahto
Changes: 
6x9 for testing display on Kindle and other ereaders
Version: 1.5 Aug 10, 2010 1:50 pm GMT-5 by Ananda Mahto
Changes: 
Not really version 5, but ok.
Version: 1.4 Aug 10, 2010 1:47 pm GMT-5 by Ananda Mahto
Changes: 
PDFs not being generated. Tried a few changes on the parameters page to see if that makes a difference.
Version: 1.3 Aug 10, 2010 1:16 pm GMT-5 by Ananda Mahto
Changes: 
Back to 8.5x11
Version: 1.2 Aug 10, 2010 1:06 pm GMT-5 by Ananda Mahto
Changes: 
Experimenting with 6x9 and different paragraph spacing.
Version: 1.1 Aug 10, 2010 2:46 am GMT-5 by Ananda Mahto
Changes: 
Only includes chapter 1 so far.

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