An R Companion to Political Analysis

ISBN-13: 9781071862414 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 384 str.

Barry Clayton Edwards

Opis

The Third Edition of An R Companion to Political Analysis by Philip H. Pollock III and Barry C. Edwards teaches your students to conduct research with R, the open-source programming language for statistical computing and graphics. This workbook offers the same easy-to-use style as other Companions, tailored for R.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Using R for Data Analysis
Chapter 2: Descriptive Statistics
Chapter 3: Creating and Transforming Variables
Chapter 4: Making Comparisons
Chapter 5: Graphing Relationships and Describing Patterns
Chapter 6: Random Assignment and Sampling
Chapter 7: Making Controlled Comparisons
Chapter 8: Foundations of Statistical Inference
Chapter 9: Hypothesis Tests with One or Two Samples
Chapter 10: Chi-Square Test and Analysis of Variance
Chapter 11: Correlation and Bivariate Regression
Chapter 12: Multiple Regression
Chapter 13: Analyzing Regression Residuals
Chapter 14: Logistic Regression
Chapter 15: Doing Your Own Political Analysis

O autorze

Philip H. Pollock III is a professor of political science at the University of Central Florida. He has taught courses in research methods at the undergraduate and graduate levels for more than thirty years. His main research interests are American public opinion, voting behavior, techniques of quantitative analysis, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. His recent research has been on the effectiveness of Internet-based instruction. Pollock's research has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Social Science Quarterly, and the British Journal of Political Science. Recent scholarly publications include articles in Political Research Quarterly, the Journal of Political Science Education, and PS: Political Science and Politics.

Barry C. Edwards is a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Central Florida.  He received his B.A. from Stanford University, a J.D. from New York University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. His teaching and research interests include American politics, public law, and research methods. He founded the Political Science Data Group and created the PoliSciData.com web site. His research has been published in American Politics Research, Congress & the Presidency, Election Law Journal, Emory Law Journal, Georgia Bar Journal, Harvard Negotiation Law Review, Journal of Politics, NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy, Political Research Quarterly, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Public Management Review, and State Politics and Policy Quarterly.