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Statistical Analysis of Networks

for the Social Sciences

STAT 529

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Links to resources

Links to Articles Mentioned in Class

• About sampling: Estimating Iraqi casualties due to the war
  • The Iraqi war - counting the casualties, The Economist, November 6 2004 (UW restricted)
  • See also the original article in the Lancet (UW restricted): Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: cluster sample survey, The Lancet, Vol 364, pages 1857-1864

Software for Sampling

• survey home page: the package home page with tutorial and help pages.
• survey manual: the manual for the R package survey for survey analysis used for the course.
• statnet manual: the statnet manual, tutorial and help pages.
• sna manual: the manual for the R package sna for statistical modeling of networks and graphs.
• network manual: the manual for the R package network to represent and store networks and graphs in R.

Learning about R

• Using R for data analysis and graphics [pdf (693k; 112 pgs)] (JH Maindonald)
• R for beginners [pdf (149k; 31 pgs)] (Emmanuel Paradis)
• R reference card [pdf (59k, 1 pg)] (J Baron)
• The R manuals:
• An introduction to R [pdf (622k; 105 pgs)] (The official introduction)
• Writing R extensions [pdf (425k; 69 pgs)] (Explanations of writing packages and calling C from R)
• The R reference index [pdf (5.2M; 1046 pgs)] (The R help pages printed out)

· An Introduction to Splus/R: A web-based short introduction

· Statistical Data Analysis in R: A web-based complete set of documentation (very good)

· Introduction to R: A great list of resources for learning R

· Background notes on R and the Omegahat Project Brian Ripley’s wisdom

Downloading and Installing R on your computer

To download R go to CRAN (the Comprehensive R Archive Network) at

http://cran.r-project.org

or one of the mirror sites listed there. In particular the US mirror is

http://cran.us.r-project.org

Follow the instructions on the CRAN web pages. There are precompiled binaries for various forms of Windows (95, 98, NT, and 2000) and various forms of UNIX (including Linux).

Downloading R for Windows

Go to

http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/

read the ReadMe files there and follow the instructions.

Rweb: A Web based interface to R where you can run snippets of R code and see the output

Using UNIX/LINUX for Social Science Computing

• Introduction to UNIX: My notes on UNIX, cribbed from local and remote sources
• Software on Goodall and Mead: Student Uniform Access UNIX machines

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