Alan Grafen
Autor(a) de Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think
Obras por Alan Grafen
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- Nome canónico
- Grafen, Alan
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Educação
- Oxford University
- Relações
- Dawkins, Richard (Doctoral advisor)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 3
- Membros
- 350
- Popularidade
- #68,329
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 5
- ISBN
- 6
Its main drawback, at least for me, is that it doesn't use R, but sticks to old packages like Minitab and SSPS. This is a bit annoying.
Also it has some quirks; for example every now and then it attempts a so called "geometric explanation of the analysis of variance", in which mean sums of squares are illustrated by Pythagorean theorems in a multidimensional space. I am still to find a person who could understand these explanations, and to whom they would actually help. But they are not long, nor are they frequent, and as long as you ignore them, and as long as you find translating the code to R yourself, it's a truly beautiful book.… (mais)