R for Political Data Science: A Practical Guide

ISBN-13: 9780367818890 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 460 str.

Francisco Urdinez; Andres Cruz

Opis

This book is a handbook for political scientists new to R who want to learn the most useful and common ways to interpret and analyze political data. It was written by political scientists, thinking about the many real-world problems faced in their work.

O autorze

This book is edited by Francisco Urdinez, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Science of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, and Andrés Cruz, Adjunct Instructor at the same institution. Most of the authors who contributed with chapters to this volume are political scientists affiliated to the Institute of Political Science of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, and many are researchers and collaborators of the Millennium Data Foundation Institute, an institution that aims at gathering, cleaning and analyzing public data to support public policy. Andrew Heiss is affiliated to Georgia State University Andrew Young School of Policy Studies and he joined this project contributing with a chapter on causal inference. Above all, all the authors are keen users of R.