Learning Applied Statistics with a focus on R

Question

I know MIT and Stanford have placed many videos online of their courses. Does anybody know of a course (with videos available online) of Applied Statistics?

I've been playing with R and the tool (from a technical side) is pretty straightforward. However, I'm quite clueless when it comes to the statistical side (regressions, recursive partitioning, etc). I've read a few course descriptions for Applied Statistics, and it seems to be exactly the type of course I'm looking for. However, I'd prefer it if there were videos I could watch online (as opposed to trying to find a local community college).

Are there any good videos for learning statistics? Preferably with a focus on R?

Answer 1

I recommend The R Book. It's expensive, around $100, but it's the best book I've found. Over 900 pages and easy to read.

Answer 2

Modern Applied Statistics with S is good, as is Introductory Statistics with R.

The difference between R and S is negligible for me.

Answer 3

You might want to look at Introduction to Statistical Thought, which is a textbook with examples (and exercises) in R. No video lectures, however.

Answer 4

So everyone wants to give you a book not a video?

See if any of these fit the bill.

• Cornell INFO 747 class - Social and Economic Data
• University of Toronto, ey? - Statistical Methods for Actuarial Sciences
• University of Oregon - Economics 421 - Econometrics
• UC Berkeley - Discrete Choice Economics

I got a bunch of these links initially from the Data Wrangling blog but I noticed that many of the links were bad. As of Feb 20, 2009 the links below work.

Post a comment on this if there is a specific topic you want covered.

Answer 5

Just found a Stanford Statistics 202 class via Hacker News that appears to be exactly what I'm looking for. It's a statistics course that uses R with full video lectures up on youtube.

Answer 6

USGS did a course last year called LearnR.

http://www.fort.usgs.gov/BRDScience/LearnR.htm

It uses the Crawley book as a text and covers many topics. The links for a few of the videos need to be changed from Learn to learn. Mostly the first few as I recall.