Advanced Data Analysis

Author

Mike Nguyen

Published

June 19, 2026

Preface

This is the second book in the Data Analysis series. Like its companion, it is an effort to simplify and demystify data analysis, making it accessible to a wide audience. Writing it has been as much a learning journey for me as I hope it will be for you.

The first book, A Guide on Data Analysis, is concerned with interpretation and causal inference: understanding why, and estimating effects we can defend. This book turns to the other half of the discipline, prediction. The principles and philosophy are the same; the goal is different.

This book differs from the first one in emphasis: it is about building models that predict well, whereas the first book is about interpreting relationships and defending causal claims. The opening chapters develop that distinction (prediction versus estimation) in full; the preface only needs to flag it.

How to cite this book

This is the open online edition. If you reference it, please also consider citing the companion volume, Foundations of Data Analysis (Springer Cham, 2025).

  1. APA (7th edition)

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Code Replication

This book was built with R version 4.4.3 (2025-02-28 ucrt) and the following packages:


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