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@rudeboybert rudeboybert released this 03 Feb 16:40
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  • Reorganized chapter sequencing according to flowchart at top of Section 1.1
  • Chapter 2 - Getting Started: Added more explanation on R packages, including analogy for install.packages() and library() (akin to downloading apps onto phone)
  • Added "Data Modeling" portion to book
    • Chapter 6 - Basic regression: one numerical explanatory variable, correlation, one categorical explanatory variable)
    • Chapter 7 - Multiple regression: two numerical explanatory variables, one numerical and one categorical, interaction effects, Simpson's Paradox
    • Uses new moderndive package, which includes get_regression_table() and get_regression_points() wrapper functions to simplify outputing of clean regression tables and observed/fitted values + resisuals
  • Added "statistical inference" portion to book
    • Added Chapter 8 - Sampling (still under construction) using sampling bowl
    • Chapters 9 and 10 on confidence intervals and hypothesis testing have not yet been updated, as we were awaiting the now launched package: infer: A tidyverse-friendly R package fo statistical inference
    • Added Chapter 11 - Inference for regression (still under construction), where we'll revisit the regression models fit in Chapters 6 & 7

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