It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
Sherlock Holmes in “A Study in Scarlett” (Arthur Conan Doyle).
Suggested References:
- Laura Igual, and Santi Seguí. "Introduction to Data Science”, Springer, Cham, 2017.
- Larry Wasserman. All of statistics: a concise course in statistical inference. Springer Science & Business Media, 2013.
- Nina Zumel and John Mount. Practical Data Science with R, Manning, 2014.
- Crhistopher Gandrud, Reproducible Research with R and RStudio, R Series, CRC Press, 2014.
- Yihui Xie, Dynamic Documents with R and Knitr, R Series, CRC Press, 2014.
- Oscar P. Lamigueiro, Displaying Time Series, Spatial and Space-Time Data with R, R Series, CRC Press, 2014.
- Gareth James et al., An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Application in R, Springer, 2013.
- Eric D. Kolasky and Gabor Csárdi, Statistical Analysis of Network Data with R, Springer, 2014.
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