Prologue. - 1 An Introduction to S-PLUS. - 2 Describing Data. - 3 Basic Inference. - 4 Scatterplots Simple Regression and Smoothing. - 5 Analysis of Variance and Covariance. - 6 The Analysis of Longitudinal Data. - 7 More Graphics. - 8 Multiple Linear Regression. - 9 Generalized Linear Models I: Logistic Regression. - 10 Generalised linear models II: Poisson regression. - 11 Linear Mixed Models I. - 12 Linear Mixed Models II. - 13 Generalized Additive Models. - 14 Nonlinear models. - 15 Regression Trees. - 16 Survival Analysis I. - 17 Survival Analysis II: Cox's Regression. - 18 Principal Components and Factor Analysis. - 19 Cluster Analysis. - 20 Discriminant Function Analysis. - A The S-Plus Gui. - A. 1 Introduction. - A. 2 Statistical analysis using dialogue boxes. - A. 3 Graphics using the GUI. - B Answers to selected exercises. - References. Language: English