Analysis of Categorical Data with R
暫譯: 使用 R 進行類別數據分析

本書的第一版經過近十年的教學經驗進行了重大更新。結構與之前相同，但在進階主題章節中新增了兩個重要主題 - 群體測試（group testing）和樣條（splines）。計算部分已完全更新，現在已將 'emmeans' [CB1] 套件整合進書中。

Christopher R. Bilder is a Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Bilder has been the Principal Investigator for grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health involving research into categorical data analysis problems. His research has been published in a diverse set of outlets ranging from the Journal of the American Statistical Association to Chance. For his categorical data research, Bilder was awarded the Best Paper in Biometrics by an International Biometric Society Member Award and the American Statistical Association's Outstanding Statistical Application Award (twice). Bilder is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

For more than 20 years, Bilder has taught a course on categorical data analysis to students majoring in statistics and to students majoring in a wide variety of other fields of study. He also has been a pioneer in using technology in and outside the classroom through the use of class video capturing, course websites, distance learning, blended learning, and tablets during his career. Bilder's YouTube Channel at https: //www.youtube.com/ChrisBilder hosts his videos from courses, workshops, and presentations.

Thomas M. Loughin is a Professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC, Canada. He was Chair of the department from 2014-2019 before coming to his senses. He previously held a faculty position at Kansas State University for 13 years. At K-State he was partly funded by the College of Agriculture to provide statistical collaboration and consulting for faculty and students there. As a result, he has been active in statistical consulting, particularly the design and analysis of experiments, for most of his career. As a consultant and a teacher, he specializes in communication with subject-matter experts and students, re-expressing complex statistical concepts into language that is easy to understand.

Tom's research interests include categorical data analysis, statistical learning techniques, particularly tree-based ensembles, and sports analytics. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and an accredited professional statistician, maintaining both P.Stat. (SSC), PStat(R) (ASA). He has served on numerous committee positions within SSC and ASA and has held positions on the editorial boards of Biometrics, Technometrics, The American Statistician, and Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology.

Tom is an avid curler, playing in two leagues at the Cloverdale Curling Club. He is a craft beer aficionado and a member of the world's longest-running fantasy baseball league (*), the Snedecor Baseball Mail League.
(*) Claim unconfirmed but unrefuted.

克里斯多福·R·比德勒是內布拉斯加-林肯大學統計系的教授。比德勒曾擔任美國國家科學基金會和國家衛生研究院的主要研究者，專注於類別數據分析問題的研究。他的研究成果發表於多個期刊，包括《美國統計協會期刊》和《Chance》。因其在類別數據研究方面的貢獻，比德勒獲得了國際生物統計學會成員頒發的生物統計學最佳論文獎以及美國統計協會的傑出統計應用獎（兩次）。比德勒是美國統計協會的會士。

在過去20多年中，比德勒教授了類別數據分析課程，對象包括統計專業的學生以及其他多個學科的學生。他在教學中和課外活動中，通過使用課堂視頻錄製、課程網站、遠程學習、混合學習和平板電腦等技術，成為了技術應用的先驅。比德勒的YouTube頻道（https://www.youtube.com/ChrisBilder）上有他課程、研討會和演講的視頻。

托馬斯·M·洛金是加拿大不列顛哥倫比亞省本拿比的西門菲莎大學統計與精算科學系的教授。他在2014年至2019年間擔任該系主任，之後才回過神來。他之前在堪薩斯州立大學任教13年。在堪薩斯州立大學，他部分由農業學院資助，為那裡的教職員和學生提供統計合作和諮詢。因此，他在統計諮詢方面非常活躍，尤其是在實驗設計和分析方面，這是他職業生涯的大部分時間。作為顧問和教師，他專注於與主題專家和學生的溝通，將複雜的統計概念轉化為易於理解的語言。

托馬斯的研究興趣包括類別數據分析、統計學習技術，特別是基於樹的集成方法，以及體育分析。他是美國統計協會的會士，並且是一名認證的專業統計師，持有P.Stat.（SSC）和PStat(R)（ASA）資格。他曾在SSC和ASA的多個委員會中任職，並擔任《生物統計學》、《技術統計學》、《美國統計學家》和《發展醫學與兒童神經學》的編輯委員會成員。

托馬斯是一位熱衷於冰壺運動的愛好者，在克洛弗代爾冰壺俱樂部參加兩個聯盟的比賽。他還是一位精釀啤酒愛好者，並且是世界上歷史最悠久的幻想棒球聯盟（*）的成員，即斯內德科爾棒球郵件聯盟。
(*) 此聲明未經確認但未被反駁。