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Introduction: Geen Tomko asks: Can you recommend a good introductory book for statistical computation? Mostly, something that would help make it easier in collecting and analyzing data from student test scores. I don’t know. Usually, when people ask for a starter statistics book, my recommendation (beyond my own books) is The Statistical Sleuth. But that’s not really a computation book. ARM isn’t really a statistical computation book either. But the statistical computation books that I’ve seen don’t seems so relevant for the analyses that Tomko is looking for. For example, the R book of Venables and Ripley focuses on nonparametric statistics, which is fine but seems a bit esoteric for these purposes. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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