Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View
Cosma Rohilla Shalizi
A very extensive treatment of modern statistical data analysis, covering regression, smoothing, causal inference, time series, and simulation, all worked through in R. Nearly 900 pages built from a Carnegie Mellon course.
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