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Introduction, descriptive statistics, R and data visualization This is the first chapter in our eight-chapter material on introduction to statistics: 1. Introduction, descriptive statistics, R and data visualization 2. Probability and simulation 3. Statistical analysis of one and two sample data 4. Statistics by simulation 5. Simple linear regression 6. Multiple linear regression 7. Analysis of categorical data 8. Analysis of variance (Analysis of multigroup data) In this first chapter the idea of statistics is introduced together with some of the basic summary statistics and data visualization tools. Our tool thoughout the material for working with statistics, probability and data analysis is the open source software R, and hence an introduction to R is included in this chapter.