Modern Applied Statistics with S

Abstract

This is the fourth edition of a book which first appeared in 1994, and the S environment has grown rapidly since. This book concentrates on using the current systems to do statistics; there is a companion volume (Venables and Ripley, 2000) which discusses programming in the S language in much greater depth. Some of the more specialized functionality of the S environment is covered in on-line complements, additional sections and chapters which are available on the World Wide