Chapter 14 Takeaways

Reading this book was a complete pleasure. I was revisiting the principles of bootstrapping after almost four years. It has been a wonderful experience relearning some of the basic aspects of bootstrapping. Since the book was written in R, I had a chance to improve on the following skills

• R basic skills
• Markdown skills
• RMarkdown skills
• Learnt and implemented bookdown
• Learnt to host the website on github
• Prepared Anki cards along the way for some of the important concepts mentioned in the book
• Managed to read The Seven Pillars of Statistics while working through this book
  • It turned out to be a great book that talks about the importance of
    • Data Aggregation
    • Information measurement
    • Likelihood principles
    • Interdata comparisons - No reliance on external benchmarks
    • Regression
    • Design of Experiments
    • Residual
• revisited ggplot2 package and tidyverse packages
• Most important outcome of reading the book
  • Managed to get markdown, rmarkdown, bookdown and R working on emacs. I think this has been the biggest benefit of working through this book. I had to clean up the emacs config for getting this workflow in place. This was one activity
  • Also managed to get some yasnippets in for markdown and rmarkdown workflow in emacs