This course is based on the first six chapters of Venables and
Ripley, Modern Applied Statistics with S-Plus, Third Edition, Springer-Verlag,
1999, whose
home
page has excellent additional material. The purpose of the course is
to teach the basic concepts needed so a user of S can continue to develop
his or her skills independently.
The topics covered will be:
Overview of S-Plus
Sample session: graphics and statistics
Working with the S language
Basic plotting functions
Trellis graphics
Basics of programming in S
Modern univariate statistics in S: robust methods, bootstrap
Linear regression
If you are using S-Plus for Windows 4.x, you might need to download some
libraries through the internet to reproduce the material in the course:
The MASS library
with datasets and functions from the book by Venables and Ripley.
Links to resources
On-line texts about S and S-Plus:
Addenda to Venables and
Ripley Modern Applied Statistics with S-Plus (Second Edition)
Complement on R
R
is a public-domain implementation of S written in Lisp
Carlos Alzola & Frank Harrell's book: An
Introduction to S-Plus and the Hmisc and Design libraries. The
Hmisc library adds a lot of very good "utility" functions, e.g. variable
labels, comments, enhancements to S-Plus graphics and a variety of statistical
functions. The Design library includes ols (an enhanced
lm)
and lrm which can fit ordinal logistic models. Another library
by Frank Harrell, display, produces excellent LaTeX tables from
S objects.
ESS manual: An emacs front-end
for S. The software can be downloaded from CRAN (:= Comprehensive R Archive
Network), /src/other/ess/ where is any of the CRAN
(mirror)sites, such as on Statlib: http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/
Classif library
by Brian Ripley. (ftp)For
Windows: html
or ftp. [His]
latest book (`Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks', 1996, CUP 0-521-46086-7,
details at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/PRbook/,
has the backgound and worked examples for these methods.
R a public-domain "version" of
S written in Lisp by a international array of voluntary contributors. There
is a version for Windows.