Making Sense of Data: A Practical Guide to Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Mining

5.7 FURTHER READING

This chapter has focused on techniques for summarizing, making statements about population from samples, and quantifying relationships in the data. There are a number of introductory statistical books that provide an overview of the theory behind these techniques including the central limits theorem: Donnelly (2004), Freedman (1997), Rumsey (2003), Kachigan (1991), and Levine (2005).

The following web sites contain information on statistics and other data analysis methods:

http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html

http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/index.htm

The following web site contains information on the R-Project on statistical computing:

http://www.r-project.org/