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p.40

Second paragraph change to:
You can load this file into R using the R Commander menu options described at the start of the following chapter. Alternatively,  . . .

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p.41

Take as an example the satisfaction scores for the  GP consultations where we have a mean of 2.84 with a sem of .291, we so to calculate a quick 95% CI; . . .

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p.45

Menu option (3rd paragraph)  incorrect change to   
Graphs -> Density estimate

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p.61

4th paragraph change menu option to:
Data-> Import data->from text file, clipboard or URL . . .

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p.65

Second line of R code should be:
t.test(result, mu=100)

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p.67

5th paragraph change menu option to:
Data-> Import data->from text file, clipboard or URL . . .

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p.74

7th paragraph change menu option to:
Data-> Import data->from text file, clipboard or URL . . .

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p.79

Replace lower case f with capital in:
Repeating the F test with the data in long format:

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p.85

8th paragraph change menu option to:
Data-> Import data->from text file, clipboard or URL . . .

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p.87

Last sentence of page remove first pre it should be:

You then select the type of test as default.  Setting the First variable to post and the Second variable to pre. Then click OK.

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p.94
legend beside meaning of U graph

Subscript to second U missing:
U2

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p.95
paragraph 5

Two errors in the sentence, should be samples and same:
The x axis is the actual U value and the y axis the relative frequency (think here probability) of a particular value occurring given that both samples come from the same distribution.

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p.96
paragraph 1

First sentence, should be samples:
The diagram opposite provides the distribution of U values for two samples of size 4

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p.97

7th paragraph change menu option to:
Data-> Import data->from text file, clipboard or URL . . .

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p.105

5th paragraph change menu option to:
Data-> Import data->from text file, clipboard or URL . . .

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2nd paragraph change menu option to:
convert to Convert

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p.111

7th paragraph change menu option to:
Data-> Import data->from text file, clipboard or URL . . .

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p.115
last line

Last line: Change h0 to h1

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p.134

5th paragraph change menu option to:
Data-> Import data->from text file, clipboard or URL . . .

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p.200

11th paragraph change menu option to:
Data-> Import data->from text file, clipboard or URL . . .

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p.213

Remove that in the following:
five years older your odds of dying are twice that of that someone 5

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p.217 paragraph 13 line 2

Remove using in the following:
You can find the number of iterations it took to achieve the required level of convergence using either using the structure function,

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p.237
paragraph 2
line 2

Add function to:
which case you might want to try the scan() function, further . . .

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p.253

4th paragraph change menu option to:
Data-> Import data->from text file, clipboard or URL . . .

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p.336
Paragraph 8

Removed the line:
mean_diff <- 100 - 95.533

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p.336
4th screenshot

Removed the line:
mean_diff <- 100 - 95.533

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p.340

Edited equation, added added superscript 2 to X and also in text:
. . .  chi-squared value (X2) and the total count. . .

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p.349
Paragraph 8

Change  indicate to  indicating
You can see the 6 listed warnings in the screenshot on the far left indicating the number of rows that were

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p.349

Last line missing:
The quick-R website has many examples of scatterplots, including 3-d ones at http://www.statmethods.net/graphs/scatterplot.html

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p.406

5th paragraph change menu option to:
Data-> Import data->from text file, clipboard or URL . . .

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p.407

Last two lines of R code change to:
# not possible to do it the old fashioned way:
~table(temp_data$chd_status, temp_data$time_category)

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p.416

5th paragraph change menu option to:
Data-> Import data->from text file, clipboard or URL . . .

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p.416

Last paragraph add logistic in:
Previous simple logistic regression …

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p.550

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