K. Elo wrote:
Hi,
Monica Pisica wrote:
> - There is no perfect “beginner” book.
How about
- Crawley, Michael (2007). The R book, Wiley & Sons.
- Maindonald, John & John Braun (2007): Data Analysis and Graphics Using
R (2nd edition), Cambridge University Press.
As a political scientist (with programming experience :) ), both books
have helped me to decide in favour of R instead of SPSS when I had to
choose the environment for statistical analysis (in Linux). Sadly
enough, almost all method books written for social scientists take SPSS
as the standard statistical application and, consequently, teach data
analysis in a look-for-this-in-SPSS-output-manner. To use R in social
sciences, one really must learn how R does things: looking for something
in the output is not enough :)
BTW, does someone happen to know, if there is any R-book written for
social scientists?
Kind regards,
Kimmo
Some of the "Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences" series of
monographs by SAGE publications use R (such as "Spatial Regression
Models") and there are a few Econometrics books out there (Econometrics
in R by Grant Farnsworth is available for free in the contributed
section of the CRAN website).
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