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Statistics (The Easier Way) with R — The Interactive Edition teaches you to answer real research questions with real data, using one simple, repeatable recipe: Dr. R’s 7 Steps.

What makes this edition different

  • Run every example, live. Each chapter’s R code executes right here in your browser — no installation, nothing to configure. Change the numbers, re-run, and see what happens.
  • The 7-Step Wizard. Every inference test in Section 5 walks you through the same seven steps — check assumptions, set hypotheses, choose α, compute the test statistic, draw the picture, find the p-value, draw your conclusion, and confirm with a confidence interval.
  • Use your own data. Upload a CSV or Excel file, or point to a Google Sheet, and Statifier will propose research questions your data can answer — then help you answer them, step by step. Your data never leaves your browser.

The 7 Steps at a glance

Step What you do
0 Check assumptions Verify your data qualifies for the test
1 Set hypotheses State H0 and choose one Ha
2 Set α Weigh cost, risk, and ethics
3 Calculate the test statistic Analytically, with the equations
4 Draw a picture Shade the rejection region
5 Find the p-value The area in the tail(s)
6 Draw a conclusion Is p < α? If so, reject the null
7 Confidence interval Confirm your work in R

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The Preface, all of Section 1 — Basic Concepts, and all of Section 2 — Charts, Graphs, and Plots are free to read, with live runnable code. Buying the book (or logging in, if you already have) unlocks Sections 3–6, the appendices, and Statifier.

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