Modern Applied Statistics with S-Plus

This guide explains how S-Plus, a powerful environment for the statistical and graphical analysis of data, provides the tool to implement many statistical ideas. Readers are assumed to have a basic knowledge of statistics, and practical problems are presented throughout the text.

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S-Plus is a powerful environment for statistical and graphical analysis of data. It provides the tools to implement many statistical ideas which have been made possible by the widespread availability of workstations having good graphics and computational capabilities. This book is a guide to using S-Plus to perform statistical analyses and provides both an introduction to the use of S-Plus and a course in modern statistical methods. All data sets and S-Plus functions used are supplied with the book on a diskette.