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Author Jenkins-Smith, Hank C., author.

Title Quantitative research methods for political science, public policy and public administration : with applications in R / Hank C. Jenkins-Smith, Joseph T. Ripberger, Gary Copeland, Matthew C. Nowlin, Tyler Hughes, Aaron L. Fister, Wesley Wehde.

Publication Info. [Norman, Oklahoma] : University Libraries, the University of Oklahoma, 2017-
Minneapolis : Open Textbook Library

Item Status

Edition Third edition.
Description 1 online resource : illustrations (some color).
Current Frequency Updated irregularly.
Description text file PDF
Physical Medium polychrome
Series Open textbook library
Open Textbook Library.
Contents Theories and social science -- Research design -- Exploring and visualizing data -- Probability -- Inference -- Association of variables -- The logic of ordinary least squares estimation -- Linear estimation and minimizing error -- Bi-variate hypothesis testing and model fit -- OLS assumptions and simple regression diagnostics -- Introduction to multiple regression -- The logic of multiple regression -- Multiple regression and model building -- Topics in multiple regression -- The art of regression diagnostics -- Logit regression -- Basic R.
Summary "The focus of this book is on using quantitative research methods to test hypotheses and build theory in political science, public policy and public administration. It is designed for advanced undergraduate courses, or introductory and intermediate graduate-level courses. The first part of the book introduces the scientific method, then covers research design, measurement, descriptive statistics, probability, inference, and basic measures of association. The second part of the book covers bivariate and multiple linear regression using the ordinary least squares, the calculus and matrix algebra that are necessary for understanding bivariate and multiple linear regression, the assumptions that underlie these methods, and then provides a short introduction to generalized linear models. The book fully embraces the open access and open source philosophies. The book is freely available in the SHAREOK repository; it is written in R Markdown files that are available in a public GitHub repository; it uses and teaches R and RStudio for data analysis, visualization and data management; and it uses publicly available survey data (from the Meso-Scale Integrated Socio-geographic Network) to illustrate important concepts and methods. We encourage students to download the data, replicate the examples, and explore further! We also encourage instructors to download the R Markdown files and modify the text for use in different courses."--Open Textbook Library.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Note This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CCBY 4.0)
Local Note Open Educational Resources (OER). Open Textbooks
Open Textbook Library
Subject Quantitative research -- Textbooks.
Quantitative research.
Genre/Form Textbooks.
Subject Quantitative research.
Policy sciences -- Statistical methods.
Policy sciences -- Statistical methods.
Policy sciences.
Political statistics.
Political statistics.
Public administration -- Statistical methods.
Public administration -- Statistical methods.
Genre/Form Textbooks.
Added Author Ripberger, Joseph T., 1984- author.
Copeland, Gary W., author.
Nowlin, Matthew C., 1976- author.
Hughes, Tyler, 1986- author.
Fister, Aaron L., author.
Wehde, Wesley, author.
Open Textbook Library, distributor.