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Statistics Playbook, Hardback Book

Statistics Playbook Hardback

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Learn statistics by analysing professional basketball data!

Statistics Slam Dunk is an action-packed book that will help you build your skills in exploratory data analysis by digging into the fascinating world of NBA games and player stats using the R language.

This textbook will upgrade your R data science skills by taking on practical analysis challenges based on NBA game and player data. You will take on the challenge of wrangling messy data to drill on the skills that will make you the star player on any data team. And just like in the real world, you will get no clean pre-packaged datasets in this book. You will develop a toolbox of R data skills including: Reading and writing dataInstalling and loading packagesTransforming, tidying, and wrangling dataApplying best-in-class exploratory data analysis techniquesCreating compelling visualizationsDeveloping supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithmsExecute hypothesis tests, including t-tests and chi-square tests for independenceCompute expected values, Gini coefficients, and z-scores Is losing games on purpose a rational strategy?

Which hustle statistics have an impact on wins and losses?

Each chapter in this one-of-a-kind guide uses new data science techniques to reveal interesting insights like these. About the technology Amazing insights are hiding in raw data, and statistical analysis with R can help reveal them!

R was built for data, and it supports modelling and statistical techniques including regression and classification models, time series forecasts, and clustering algorithms. And when you want to see your results, R's visualisations are stunning, with best-in-class plots and charts.

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