Analyzing Medical Data Using S-PLUS

Each chapter will consist of basic statistical theory, simple examples of S-PLUS code, more complex examples of S-PLUS code, and exercises. All data sets will be taken from genuine medical investigations and will be made available, if possible, on a web site. All examples will contain extensive grap...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Everitt, Brian, Rabe-Hesketh, Sophia (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 2001, 2001
Edition:1st ed. 2001
Series:Statistics for Biology and Health
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • 1 An Introduction to S-PLUS
  • 2 Describing Data
  • 3 Basic Inference
  • 4 Scatterplots, Simple Regression and Smoothing
  • 5 Analysis of Variance and Covariance
  • 6 The Analysis of Longitudinal Data
  • 7 More Graphics
  • 8 Multiple Linear Regression
  • 9 Generalized Linear Models I: Logistic Regression
  • 10 Generalised linear models II: Poisson regression
  • 11 Linear Mixed Models I
  • 12 Linear Mixed Models II
  • 13 Generalized Additive Models
  • 14 Nonlinear models
  • 15 Regression Trees
  • 16 Survival Analysis I
  • 17 Survival Analysis II: Cox’s Regression
  • 18 Principal Components and Factor Analysis
  • 19 Cluster Analysis
  • 20 Discriminant Function Analysis
  • A The S-Plus Gui
  • A.1 Introduction
  • A.2 Statistical analysis using dialogue boxes
  • A.3 Graphics using the GUI
  • B Answers to selected exercises
  • References