Applied R: Manual for the quantitative social scientist

Applied R for the quantitative social scientist is a manual on R written specifically as an introduction for the quantitative social scientist. To my opinion, R-Project is a magnificent statistical program, ready to be accepted and implemented in the social sciences. The flexibility of this program and the way data are handled gives the user a sense of closeness to and control over the data. I think this inspires users to analyze their data more creatively and sometimes in a more advanced way.

Index of the R-Sessions

The R-Sessions are a series of blog entries on using R. A large part consists of an R-manual I once wrote. Other posts include some tricks I found out, as well as entries detailing functions and packages I wrote for …

R Sessions 33: Select (nested) observations with equal number of occurences

Recently, I was contacted with an question about R code. A befriended researcher was working with nested data, which was unbalanced. He was working with data in a ‘long’ format: all observations nested within the same group had the same …

The organizing committee of the useR! 2009 conference just informed me, that my submission for presenting my extension package influence.ME, has been accepted! Influence.ME is a new R package that I’m currently developing, with the indispensable help of Ben Pelzer …

Curving Normality

Curving Normality is an academic website and blog maintained by Rense Nieuwenhuis.

Rense is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Institue for Innovation and Governance Studies (IGS) of the University of Twente.

His work is forthcoming in the Journal of Marriage and Family and the European Sociological Review.

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