Preface

This book aims to train students in statistics and data science on academic writing with professional tools such as LaTeX, BibTeX, R, and Git.

This book is currently under development, and it is meant to be an extended version of the book “Statistical Writing” https://github.com/statds/stat-writing written by Dr. Elizabeth Schifano and Dr. Jun Yan.

The notes are prepared with the bookdown R package (Xie 2016), which can be installed from CRAN or GitHub:

install.packages("bookdown")
# or the development version
# devtools::install_github("rstudio/bookdown")

Remember each Rmd file contains one and only one chapter, and a chapter is defined by the first-level heading #.

To compile this example to PDF, you need XeLaTeX. You are recommended to install TinyTeX (which includes XeLaTeX).

References

Xie, Yihui. 2016. Bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown. Chapman; Hall/CRC.

  1. Authors are listed in alphabetical order.↩︎