[Blindmath] Accessible introduction to Statistics preferably with R

[Godfrey, Jonathan]

Hi,

I think everyone should learn statistics using data that interests and motivates them. I can't comment on fantasy football though as a suitable data set.

My notes at:
http://r-resources.massey.ac.nz/lurn/front.html
are not designed as a textbook, but are at least accessible if you know what you want to achieve in R. They are maintained to support existing teaching material for my students so there isn't any theory. If you find a non-R book that is accessible these pages could well meet your needs. There is material on using R as a blindie.

There are a lot of freely available documents that can help, but of course most of them are in pdf and the Greek turns to mud. See
http://cran.r-project.org/other-docs.html
for the current list of available resources. A couple include the latex source, and one or two have html versions. Most are advanced material so browse carefully.

Jonathan





-----Original Message-----
From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jared Stofflett
Sent: Saturday, 15 March 2014 9:27 a.m.
To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Accessible introduction to Statistics preffiberely with R

I've been interested in statistics for a while so am using fantasy as a way to try and learn theory then apply it rather than just plugging numbers into formulas without understanding them. Excel is accessible but my understanding is that it is not good for handling large amounts of data. For example given a busy night in the NHL there may be 400 players who have played an average of 60 games. Each of those games could have 5 or 6 stats associated with it giving you over 100000 variables. I don't know a good way in Excel to generate a projection for each of those players taking into account the individual score for each game they have played. Am I missing something or is doing analysis on 400 players on a game by game basis feasible in Excel? All my excel work so far has been season to date statistics rather than game by game.

On 3/14/14, Sean Tikkun <jaquis at mac.com> wrote:
> Excel has most of the functions that would be necessary for fantasy 
> projections.  The reliability coefficients and confidence intervals 
> would be a little more challenging, but its all there.  Do you know 
> excel?  My understanding is that excel is already pretty compatible, 
> but then I'm not sure about your screenreader or any recent developments in compatibility.
> Most stats files live in .csv the true formatting in statistics is 
> pretty simple if you've handled integration you've done far harder stuff!
>
> Sean
>
> On Mar 14, 2014, at 12:55 PM, Jared Stofflett <stofflet at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello, I am a totally blind programmer who took up through Calc one 
>> while in college several years ago. I'd like to learn basic 
>> statistics for use in trying to generate projections for daily fantasy sports.
>> From doing research I believe R will be my program of choice. Can 
>> anyone point me to a text that is available in an easily accessible 
>> format that covers basic statistics? It would be helpful if R was the 
>> tool used but not required. I am a braille reader so can use a 
>> braille display or possibly try to find a way to have a BRF file 
>> printed out for me. If there is not a text already in an accessible 
>> form what would be the easiest way to convert a LaTeX file to either 
>> MathML or braille? Thanks for any info.
>>
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