R in Action

R in Action Review

Summary

R in Action is the first book to present both the R system and the use cases that make it such a compelling package for business developers. The book begins by introducing the R language, including the development environment. Focusing on practical solutions, the book also offers a crash course in practical statistics and covers elegant methods for dealing with messy and incomplete data using features of R.

About the Technology

R is a powerful language for statistical computing and graphics that can handle virtually any data-crunching task. It runs on all important platforms and provides thousands of useful specialized modules and utilities. This makes R a great way to get meaningful information from mountains of raw data.

About the Book

R in Action is a language tutorial focused on practical problems. It presents useful statistics examples and includes elegant methods for handling messy, incomplete, and non-normal data that are difficult to analyze using traditional methods. And statistical analysis is only part of the story. You'll also master R's extensive graphical capabilities for exploring and presenting data visually.

What's Inside

• Practical data analysis, step by step
• Interfacing R with other software
• Using R to visualize data
• Over 130 graphs
• Eight reference appendixes

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Table of Contents

Part I Getting started

1. Introduction to R
2. Creating a dataset
3. Getting started with graphs
4. Basic data management
5. Advanced data management

Part II Basic methods

6. Basic graphs
7. Basic statistics

Part III Intermediate methods

8. Regression
9. Analysis of variance
10. Power analysis
11. Intermediate graphs
12. Re-sampling statistics and bootstrapping

Part IV Advanced methods

13. Generalized linear models
14. Principal components and factor analysis
15. Advanced methods for missing data
16. Advanced graphics

Disciplinary Action (Slave to Authority)

Disciplinary Action (Slave to Authority) Review

When Leigh is called into her boss's office, she's sure she's in trouble, but when Ms. Blake tells her she knows about the BDSM website Leigh runs in her free time, she knows she's well and truly screwed.

When her boss decides to punish her for her shameful behavior, Leigh submits. Will she learn her lesson, or will her debasement in the office leave a bad taste in her mouth?

Warning: This 4300 word erotic short story contains graphic sex, explicit language, spanking, flogging, BDSM, bondage, light anal play, m/f sex, f/f sex and a whole lot of steamy fun. May be too hot to handle!

Part of the "Slave to Authority" series. If you enjoyed GETTING OFF, don't miss DISCIPLINARY ACTION!

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“You really can’t follow directions, can you, little Kitty?” Ms. Blake drew a lacquered nail down the side of Leigh’s neck. “I guess we’ll just have to tie you down so you’ll do as you’re told.”

She grabbed Leigh roughly by the hair, pulling her off the desk, then pushed her around and bent her over it, so her face rested against the wood. Leigh squirmed beneath her, loving the way Ms. Blake controlled her.

“Put your hands over your head, you little slut. Do I have to tell you everything?”

The flogger came down on her ass, stinging through her thin cotton skirt. She thrust her arms over her head.

She felt a nylon rope snake around her wrist and looked up. Ms. Blake wrapped the rope around the leg of the desk, then around the front to the other side, where she tied Leigh’s other wrist. Her breasts pressed into the wood, the cool surface making them harden even more.

She was completely helpless.

Depression in Context: Strategies for Guided Action

Depression in Context: Strategies for Guided Action Review

In Depression in Context, Martell, Addis, and Jacobson explain the theory behind their model, describe strategies and techniques for successful therapy, and bring the treatment to life with many clinical examples as well as two complete case illustrations.

Depression in Context will appeal to professionals and students alike. Neil Jacobson was a leader in developing and testing treatments for depression. At the time of his death, in 1999, he Christopher Martell, and Michael Addis had just begun work on this book. In fact, they had spent several years discussing behavioral approaches to treating depression and had been collaborating on one of the largest clinical trials for depression comparing behavioral activation to cognitive therapy and medication. Preliminary findings from this study suggest that treating depression by helping to activate people (behavioral action) is just as effective as helping them to change their thinking (cognitive therapy).