A Guide to R for Social and Behavioral Science Statistics
1st Edition
Published on 21. May 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-5443-4402-7 (ISBN)
Description
A Guide to R for Social and Behavioral Science Statistics is a short, accessible book for learning R. This handy guide contains basic information on statistics for undergraduates and graduate students, shown in the R statistical language using RStudio (R). The book is geared toward social and behavioral science statistics students, especially those with no background in computer science. Written as a companion book to be used alongside a larger introductory statistics text, the text follows the most common progression of statistics for social scientists. The guide also serves as a companion for conducting data analysis in a research methods course or as a stand-alone R and statistics text. This guide can teach anyone how to use R to analyze data, and uses frequent reminders of basic statistical concepts to accompany instructions in R to help walk students through the basics of learning how to use R for statistics.
Reviews / Votes
This text is most timely given the popular use of R in many introductory stats courses throughout our universities. The reader will find the presentation of visuals, tips, and syntax in using R to be most impressive relative to what other books provide! This is a "must have" text for faculty and students embarking on a stats course that utilizes the R program. -- Kyle Woosnam Finally, a statistics book that makes statistics clear to those who hate statistics. -- Frank A. Salamone "A Guide to R for Social and Behavioral Sciences" provides just the right balance between coverage of statistical concepts ad R guidelines. It eliminates the need to adopt a separate textbook for statistics and an R workbook. -- Renato Corbetta This is a great resource for both undergraduate and graduate students for training in fields increasingly utilizing R in data analyses! -- Dr. Lisa Hollis-Sawyer This is an excellent comprehensive book that fills in many of the gaps that researchers struggle to find in many sources. This is a great reference for Social and Behavioral scientists who want to get quickly to applying concepts using R, getting results, and understanding them. -- Ahmed Ibrahim This text is a welcome addition to the existing works that seek to explain how to use R and R Studio. The authors do a marvelous job in breaking the program down to its most basic elements for beginners and advanced users as they undertake numerous statistical procedures. Some of the finest qualities of the work are the visuals and screenshots that give readers the confidence they need to run statistics using R in the most proficient means possible! -- Kyle WoosnamMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 187 mm
Weight
548 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5443-4402-7 (9781544344027)
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Brian Joseph Gillespie, Ph.D. is a researcher in the Faculty of Spatial Sciences at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He is the author of Household Mobility in America: Patterns, Processes, and Outcomes (Palgrave, 2017) and coauthor of The Practice of Survey Research: Theory and Applications (Sage, 2016) and Using and Interpreting Statistics in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences (Sage, 2018). He has also published research in a variety of social science journals on topics related to family, migration, the life course, and interpersonal relationships.
Kathleen Charli Hibbert, Ph.D. is a social ecologist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency researching potential health impacts from relationships and interactions between humans and their environment(s). She has published works on micro-activity behavior, intentional living communities, vulnerable communities, e-waste, non-chemical stressors, children's health, and older adult sexuality. She has taught quantitative analysis and research methods in sociology, psychology, and research departments using a variety of statistical applications. William E. Wagner, III, PhD, is Chair of the Department of Sociology at California State University, Dominguez Hills and Executive Director of the Social Science Research & Instructional Council of the CSU. He is co-author of Adventures in Social Research, 11th edition (SAGE, 2022), The Practice of Survey Research (SAGE, 2016), and A Guide to R for Social and Behavioral Sciences (SAGE, 2020) and author of Using IBM (R) SPSS (R) Statistics for Research Methods and Social Science Statistics, 7th edition (SAGE, 2019).
Kathleen Charli Hibbert, Ph.D. is a social ecologist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency researching potential health impacts from relationships and interactions between humans and their environment(s). She has published works on micro-activity behavior, intentional living communities, vulnerable communities, e-waste, non-chemical stressors, children's health, and older adult sexuality. She has taught quantitative analysis and research methods in sociology, psychology, and research departments using a variety of statistical applications. William E. Wagner, III, PhD, is Chair of the Department of Sociology at California State University, Dominguez Hills and Executive Director of the Social Science Research & Instructional Council of the CSU. He is co-author of Adventures in Social Research, 11th edition (SAGE, 2022), The Practice of Survey Research (SAGE, 2016), and A Guide to R for Social and Behavioral Sciences (SAGE, 2020) and author of Using IBM (R) SPSS (R) Statistics for Research Methods and Social Science Statistics, 7th edition (SAGE, 2019).
Content
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Chapter 1 * R and RStudio (R)
Introduction
Statistical Software Overview
Downloading R and RStudio
RStudio
Finding R and RStudio Packages
Opening Data
Saving Data Files
Conclusion
Chapter 2 * Data, Variables, and Data Management
About the Data and Variables
Structure and Organization of Classic "Wide" Datasets
The General Social Survey
Variables and Measurement
Recoding Variables
Logic of Coding
Recoding Missing Values
Computing Variables
Removing Outliers
Conclusion
Chapter 3 * Data Frequencies and Distributions
Frequencies for Categorical Variables
Cumulative Frequencies and Percentages
Frequencies for Interval/Ratio Variables
Histograms
The Normal Distribution
Non-Normal Distribution Characteristics
Exporting Tables
Conclusion
Chapter 4 * Central Tendency and Variability
Measures of Central Tendency
Measures of Variability
The z-Score
Selecting Cases for Analysis
Conclusion
Chapter 5 * Creating and Interpreting Univariate and Bivariate Data Visualizations
Introduction
R's Color Palette
Univariate Data Visualization
Bivariate Data Visualization
Exporting Figures
Conclusion
Chapter 6 * Conceptual Overview of Hypothesis Testing and Effect Size
Introduction
Null and Alternative Hypotheses
Statistical Significance
Test Statistic Distributions
Choosing a Test of Statistical Significance
Hypothesis Testing Overview
Effect Size
Conclusion
Chapter 7 * Relationships Between Categorical Variables
Single Proportion Hypothesis Test
Goodness of Fit
Bivariate Frequencies
The Chi-Square Test of Independence (?2)
Conclusion
Chapter 8 * Comparing One or Two Means
Introduction
One-Sample t-Test
The Independent Samples t-Test
Examples
Additional Independent Samples t-Test Examples
Effect Size for t-Test: Cohen's d
Paired t-Test
Conclusion
Chapter 9 * Comparing Means Across Three or More Groups (ANOVA)
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
ANOVA in R
Two-Way Analysis of Variance
Conclusion
Chapter 10 * Correlation and Bivariate Regression
Review of Scatterplots
Correlations
Pearson's Correlation Coefficient
Coefficient of Determination
Correlation Tests for Ordinal Variables
The Correlation Matrix
Bivariate Linear Regression
Logistic Regression
Conclusion
Chapter 11 * Multiple Regression
The Multiple Regression Equation
Interaction Effects and Interpretation
Logistic Regression
Interpretation and Presentation of Logistic Regression Results
Conclusion
Chapter 12 * Advanced Regression Topics
Advanced Regression Topics
Polynomials
Logarithms
Scaling Data
Multicollinearity
Multiple Imputation
Further Exploration
Conclusion
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Chapter 1 * R and RStudio (R)
Introduction
Statistical Software Overview
Downloading R and RStudio
RStudio
Finding R and RStudio Packages
Opening Data
Saving Data Files
Conclusion
Chapter 2 * Data, Variables, and Data Management
About the Data and Variables
Structure and Organization of Classic "Wide" Datasets
The General Social Survey
Variables and Measurement
Recoding Variables
Logic of Coding
Recoding Missing Values
Computing Variables
Removing Outliers
Conclusion
Chapter 3 * Data Frequencies and Distributions
Frequencies for Categorical Variables
Cumulative Frequencies and Percentages
Frequencies for Interval/Ratio Variables
Histograms
The Normal Distribution
Non-Normal Distribution Characteristics
Exporting Tables
Conclusion
Chapter 4 * Central Tendency and Variability
Measures of Central Tendency
Measures of Variability
The z-Score
Selecting Cases for Analysis
Conclusion
Chapter 5 * Creating and Interpreting Univariate and Bivariate Data Visualizations
Introduction
R's Color Palette
Univariate Data Visualization
Bivariate Data Visualization
Exporting Figures
Conclusion
Chapter 6 * Conceptual Overview of Hypothesis Testing and Effect Size
Introduction
Null and Alternative Hypotheses
Statistical Significance
Test Statistic Distributions
Choosing a Test of Statistical Significance
Hypothesis Testing Overview
Effect Size
Conclusion
Chapter 7 * Relationships Between Categorical Variables
Single Proportion Hypothesis Test
Goodness of Fit
Bivariate Frequencies
The Chi-Square Test of Independence (?2)
Conclusion
Chapter 8 * Comparing One or Two Means
Introduction
One-Sample t-Test
The Independent Samples t-Test
Examples
Additional Independent Samples t-Test Examples
Effect Size for t-Test: Cohen's d
Paired t-Test
Conclusion
Chapter 9 * Comparing Means Across Three or More Groups (ANOVA)
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
ANOVA in R
Two-Way Analysis of Variance
Conclusion
Chapter 10 * Correlation and Bivariate Regression
Review of Scatterplots
Correlations
Pearson's Correlation Coefficient
Coefficient of Determination
Correlation Tests for Ordinal Variables
The Correlation Matrix
Bivariate Linear Regression
Logistic Regression
Conclusion
Chapter 11 * Multiple Regression
The Multiple Regression Equation
Interaction Effects and Interpretation
Logistic Regression
Interpretation and Presentation of Logistic Regression Results
Conclusion
Chapter 12 * Advanced Regression Topics
Advanced Regression Topics
Polynomials
Logarithms
Scaling Data
Multicollinearity
Multiple Imputation
Further Exploration
Conclusion
Index