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Applied R for the quantitative social scientist
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R-Project is an advanced software package for statistical analysis. In front of you, on paper or on
your screen, is a new manual on R-Project. It is written as an introduction for the quantitative so-
cial scientist. To my opinion, R-Project is a magnificent statistical program, even though it has
some severe limitations. It is 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 feeling of closeness to the
data. I think this inspires users to analyze their data more creatively and sometimes in a more ad-
vanced way. At present, this manual has a strong focus on multilevel regression techniques. Rea-
son for this is that in R-Project it is very easy to estimate these types of models, even the more
complex variants. The more basic and fundamental aspects of R-Project are introduced as well. All
this is done with the needs of the quantitative social scientist in mind.