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Statistical Application Development with R and Python

You're reading from   Statistical Application Development with R and Python Develop applications using data processing, statistical models, and CART

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788621199
Length 432 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Prabhanjan Narayanachar Tattar Prabhanjan Narayanachar Tattar
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Preface 1. Data Characteristics FREE CHAPTER 2. Import/Export Data 3. Data Visualization 4. Exploratory Analysis 5. Statistical Inference 6. Linear Regression Analysis 7. Logistic Regression Model 8. Regression Models with Regularization 9. Classification and Regression Trees 10. CART and Beyond Index

Using utils and the foreign packages

Data is generally available in an external file. The types of external files are certainly varied and it is important to learn which of them may be imported into R. The probable spreadsheet files may exist in a comma separated variable (CSV) format, XLS or XLSX (Microsoft Excel) form, or ODS (OpenOffice/LibreOffice Calc) ones. There are more possible formats but we restrict our attention to these described previously. A snapshot of two files, Employ.dat and SCV.csv, in gedit and MS Excel are given in the following screenshot. The brief characteristics of the two files are summarized in the following list:

  • The first row lists the names of the variables of the dataset
  • Each observation begins on a new line
  • In the DAT file, the delimiter is a tab (\t), whereas for the CSV file, it is a comma (,)
  • All three columns of the DAT file are numeric in nature
  • The first five columns of the CSV file are numeric while the last column is character
  • Overall, both the files...
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