Introduction to Probability with R (Texts in Statistical Science (Chapman & Hall/CRC)) (Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science)
£31.99
Not enough R - While many books cover using R for statistical analysis and inference there are not many textbooks that focus on the use of R for probability. So from the title I was hoping that this book would fill that gap.The book is well written and I enjoyed the biographical introductions to each of the chapters. The book is based around the courses the author has delivered in probability over the last 30 years and it is a mature course on probability. There are many exercises and solutions to selected exercises which make it more useful to students. Ultimately for me the problem I have with the book is that there is not enough R coding in it. The first few chapters have some nice R examples although you probably need to know something of R to get the best of them. Later chapters have very little R in them. For example the chapter on Markov Chains only has one piece of R code. Considering that MCMC is one of the most significant applications of R this is disappointing.