The new book of our colleague has been published

This book is designed for students involved with environmental science studies. It is a useful guide for them to become acquainted with the R, which is a free software for statistical analyses and data processing. Today, R is accepted and widely used in the scientific community. The main reason of its popularity is the boundless possibilities R gives for the users through the packages developed by statisticians all over the world.

The book contains eight chapters, beginning with information about the basics of statistics and experimental design in the environmental sciences. The following chapters present the language of R and the main commands for handling a data frame and constructing simple plots, like histograms, box plots or scatterplots. Through the chapters three to seven the distributions of continuous and discrete data and the most relevant hypothesis testing procedures are detailed. This part is the core of the book, which provides an expansively treated knowledge for the reader to feel oneself confident in processing experimental data with R in a scientific manner. The eighth chapter is destined for the regression analysis. This chapter presents the linear regression and the generalized linear models confining to one independent variable.