R help - May 2020 - [External] Re: access for free more than 500 essential Springer Nature textbooks

Springer has just made available free access to many books through July.
This is part of their global program to support educators, students
and academics
affected by coronavirus lockdown.

Their list includes about 20 statistics books in English and 2 in
German.  Several, including mine, have R in the title or subtitle.

This link describes the program:
https://www.springernature.com/gp/librarians/news-events/all-news-articles/industry-news-initiatives/free-access-to-textbooks-for-institutions-affected-by-coronaviru/17855960?sap-outbound-id=07923935E132AFCC90201BAEA7D6755EC6C597DE&utm_source=hybris-campaign&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=000_BARZ01_0000001531_AEXS_AWA_CB02_GL_txt_covid&utm_content=EN_internal_5917_20200522&mkt-key=42010A0550671EDA9BA73AC34F576EF6

My book is
Statistical Analysis and Data Display, Richard M. Heiberger, Burt
Holland, 2nd ed. 2015
It is supported by the HH package available from CRAN.

Rich

That sounds like progress.

However, I was unable to use their website.
All I can find is Excel documents (which I can't open) and MARC (?),
which I don't have time to look into.

Your post might have more value, if you provide a list of the titles
(or a link to a list, in an easy to read open access format), ideally
with a note on where to find open access copies of those texts,
without spending a long time searching.

On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 4:29 AM Richard M. Heiberger <rmh at temple.edu>
wrote:
>
> Springer has just made available free access to many books through July.
> This is part of their global program to support educators, students
> and academics
> affected by coronavirus lockdown.
>
> Their list includes about 20 statistics books in English and 2 in
> German.  Several, including mine, have R in the title or subtitle.
>
> This link describes the program:
>
https://www.springernature.com/gp/librarians/news-events/all-news-articles/industry-news-initiatives/free-access-to-textbooks-for-institutions-affected-by-coronaviru/17855960?sap-outbound-id=07923935E132AFCC90201BAEA7D6755EC6C597DE&utm_source=hybris-campaign&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=000_BARZ01_0000001531_AEXS_AWA_CB02_GL_txt_covid&utm_content=EN_internal_5917_20200522&mkt-key=42010A0550671EDA9BA73AC34F576EF6
>
> My book is
> Statistical Analysis and Data Display, Richard M. Heiberger, Burt
> Holland, 2nd ed. 2015
> It is supported by the HH package available from CRAN.
>
> Rich
>
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The Excel file is what you need.
As Fabio remarked, the downloadable links are in column R

I normally read (and write) Excel files into R using library(openxlsx)
There are also several other packages on CRAN for reading and writing Excel.

MARC stands for
MAchine-Readable Cataloging.
Information is at the Library of Congress
 https://www.loc.gov/marc/faq.html

Rich

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 2:24 PM Abby Spurdle <spurdle.a at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> That sounds like progress.
>
> However, I was unable to use their website.
> All I can find is Excel documents (which I can't open) and MARC (?),
> which I don't have time to look into.
>
> Your post might have more value, if you provide a list of the titles
> (or a link to a list, in an easy to read open access format), ideally
> with a note on where to find open access copies of those texts,
> without spending a long time searching.
>
> On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 4:29 AM Richard M. Heiberger <rmh at
temple.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Springer has just made available free access to many books through
July.
> > This is part of their global program to support educators, students
> > and academics
> > affected by coronavirus lockdown.
> >
> > Their list includes about 20 statistics books in English and 2 in
> > German.  Several, including mine, have R in the title or subtitle.
> >
> > This link describes the program:
> >
https://www.springernature.com/gp/librarians/news-events/all-news-articles/industry-news-initiatives/free-access-to-textbooks-for-institutions-affected-by-coronaviru/17855960?sap-outbound-id=07923935E132AFCC90201BAEA7D6755EC6C597DE&utm_source=hybris-campaign&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=000_BARZ01_0000001531_AEXS_AWA_CB02_GL_txt_covid&utm_content=EN_internal_5917_20200522&mkt-key=42010A0550671EDA9BA73AC34F576EF6
> >
> > My book is
> > Statistical Analysis and Data Display, Richard M. Heiberger, Burt
> > Holland, 2nd ed. 2015
> > It is supported by the HH package available from CRAN.
> >
> > Rich
> >
> > ______________________________________________
> > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> > PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

> My book is
> Statistical Analysis and Data Display, Richard M. Heiberger, Burt
> Holland, 2nd ed. 2015
In all fairness, I thought should look at your book.

I was quite impressed by the chapter on multiple comparisons.
And may look again, later.

In my personal opinion (diverging slightly), with more and more people
using extensive exploratory-style modelling, I think some of the
methods for multiple comparisons could (and should) be adapted to the
interpretation of exploratory plots.

And returning to your book...
There's relatively comprehensive chapters on multiple regression.
And I'm happy you used the term "explanatory" rather than
"independent".
When people use the term "independent variables" (outside a
theoretical context) they usually go my how-did-these people-get-a-job
list.

Some comments:
(1) Expanding on the above point, I couldn't see a section on
interpreting regression coefficients, which is something people often
get wrong.
(2) It had a nice objective/frequentist flavor, but it would have been
nicer to see clearer references to robust, semiparametric and more
general nonparametric methods, even if only brief.

In principle, some of these (but not all) follow the same philosophy
as classical statistics, but allow greater flexibility.

Thanks, Rich! I found several books to peruse.

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 12:29 PM Richard M. Heiberger <rmh at temple.edu>
wrote:
> Springer has just made available free access to many books through July.
> This is part of their global program to support educators, students
> and academics
> affected by coronavirus lockdown.
>
> Their list includes about 20 statistics books in English and 2 in
> German.  Several, including mine, have R in the title or subtitle.
>
> This link describes the program:
>
>
https://www.springernature.com/gp/librarians/news-events/all-news-articles/industry-news-initiatives/free-access-to-textbooks-for-institutions-affected-by-coronaviru/17855960?sap-outbound-id=07923935E132AFCC90201BAEA7D6755EC6C597DE&utm_source=hybris-campaign&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=000_BARZ01_0000001531_AEXS_AWA_CB02_GL_txt_covid&utm_content=EN_internal_5917_20200522&mkt-key=42010A0550671EDA9BA73AC34F576EF6
>
> My book is
> Statistical Analysis and Data Display, Richard M. Heiberger, Burt
> Holland, 2nd ed. 2015
> It is supported by the HH package available from CRAN.
>
> Rich
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>

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