Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. For example; "The computation of the values of the density functions using the dexp function."

A block of code is set as follows:

> Events_Prob <- apply(Elements_Prob,1,prod)
> Majority_Events <- (rowSums(APC)>NT/2)
> sum(Events_Prob*Majority_Events)
[1] 0.9112646

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, also appear in the text like this. For example: "Select System info from the Administration panel."

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.