TY - BOOK AU - Urdinez,Francisco AU - Cruz,Andres TI - R for political data science: a practical guide T2 - Chapman & Hall/CRC the R Series SN - 9780367818890 U1 - DC 519.5 2021 PY - 2021/// CY - Boca Raton PB - Taylor and Francis KW - Chemistry--Statistical methods KW - Engineering--Statistical methods KW - Statistical physics N1 - Includes Bibliographical references and index N2 - "This 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. This book is divided into 3 sections. The first, on the use of R, is for those users who are learning R or are migrating from another software. The second section, on econometric models, covers OLS, binary and survival models, panel data, and causal inference. The third section is a data science toolbox of some the most useful tools in the discipline: data imputation, fuzzy merge of large datasets, web mining, quantitative text analysis, network analysis, mapping, spatial cluster analysis, and principal component analysis"-- ER -