Planet of the Umps by Ken Kaiser

Planet of the Umps by Ken Kaiser

Stata is the most flexible and extensible data analysis package available from a commercial vendor. R is a similarly flexible free and open source package for data analysis, with over 3,000 add-on packages available. This book shows you how to extend the power of Stata through the use of R. It introduces R using Stata terminology with which you are already familiar. It steps through more than 30 programs written in both languages, comparing and contrasting the two packages' different approaches. When finished, you will be able to use R in conjunction with Stata, or separately, to import data, manage and transform it, create publication quality graphics, and perform basic statistical analyses.

A glossary defines over 50 R terms using Stata jargon and again using more formal R terminology. The table of contents and index allow you to find equivalent R functions by looking up Stata commands and vice versa. The example programs and practice datasets for both R and Stata are available for download.

Robert A. Muenchen is the author of the book, R for SAS and SPS Users, and is a consulting statistician with 29 years of experience. He has served on the advisory boards of SAS Institute, SPS Inc., and the Statistical Graphics Corporation. He currently manages Research Computing Support at The University of Tennessee.

Joseph M. Hilbe is Solar System Ambassador with NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, an adjunct professor of statistics at Arizona State, and emeritus professor at the University of Hawaii. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and elected member of the International Statistical Institute. Hilbe was the first editor of the Stata Technical Bulletin, (later named the Stata Journal) and is author of a number of textbooks, including Logistic Regression Models and Negative Binomial Regression.

Ken Kaiser is a former bar bouncer and pro wrestler. In the ring he wore a black hood, carried an ax, and was billed as The Hatchet Man. He was voted the most colorful umpire in the American League in a 1986 Sporting News poll. He left Major League Baseball in 2001. He lives in Rochester, New York.
David Fisher is the author of more than a dozen bestsellers, among them collaborations with George Burns, Ron Luciano, Tommy Lasorda, and Terry Bradshaw

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ISBN 13	9780312304164
ISBN 10	0312304161
Title	Planet of the Umps
Author	Ken Kaiser
Condition	Unavailable
Publisher	Thomas Dunne Books
Year published	2003-04-19
Number of pages	304
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