Introduction to Statistics using R: R Basics and Analysis

The objective of the book is to help the students,academicians and researchers to carry out basic statistical analysis using R package. The book covers essential features of R. The book is based around practical applications with real data set. The idea is to introduce basic concepts and techniques that should allow the reader to get started with practical statistics. A useful feature of the presentation is the inclusion of data set that can be easily downloadable directly into R from the web sources like yahoo and google.It has used R packages which are simple to use and contains easy access to various techniques discussed. Those who want to get started with R will certainly find this book very useful.

Prashant Joshi is Professor and Head, Department of Management,Uka Tarsadia University. He worked with Dept. of International Finance, I-Shou University, Taiwan. He has obtained MBA(Fin) & Ph.D.(Economics).He has published several papers in national and international journals and authored three books on applications of statistics and econometrics.