An R Companion to Political Analysis
Philip H Pollock author Barry Clayton Edwards author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:SAGE Publications Inc
Published:8th Jun '17
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Teach your students to conduct political research using R, the open source programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. An R Companion to Political Analysis offers the same easy-to-use and effective style as the best-selling SPSS and Stata Companions. The all-new Second Edition includes new and revised exercises and datasets showing students how to analyze research-quality data to learn descriptive statistics, data transformations, bivariate analysis (cross-tabulations and mean comparisons), controlled comparisons, statistical inference, linear correlation and regression, dummy variables and interaction effects, and logistic regression. The clear explanation and instruction is accompanied by annotated and labeled screen shots and end-of-chapter exercises to help students apply what they have learned.
"Students will love this book, as will their teachers."
– Courtney Brown, Emory University
"R and its application continues to expand worldwide, replacing both its less flexible and less available alternatives and offering new opportunities. R Companion helps quickly climb the frequently steep learning curve of the ′program library of program libraries′. The book has a deserved good record as a path-breaker in teaching R with concerns towards political analysis. Highly recommended." -- Pertti Ahonen
"Phillip H. Pollock has written a timely, useful, and well-written book to accompany his popular text The Essentials of Political Analysis. The use of R in the classroom is increasing each year, and the need for user-friendly books to help integrate methodological training with this powerful statistical language has reached a critical stage. Professor Pollock’s book fills this gap superbly. It takes the student from the elements of installing R on their own computer or laptop through the use of R to solve both simple and complex problems in social and political analysis. Students will love this book, as will their teachers." -- Courtney Brown
ISBN: 9781506368849
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 580g
248 pages
2nd Revised edition