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Working with the American Community Survey in R : A Guide to Using the acs Package / by Ezra Haber Glenn.
Springer Nature - Springer Mathematics and Statistics eBooks 2016 English International Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Glenn, Ezra Haber, Author.
- Series:
- SpringerBriefs in Statistics, 2191-5458
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Statistics.
- Demography.
- Population.
- Quantitative research.
- Social sciences--Statistical methods.
- Social sciences.
- Computer programming.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Statistical Theory and Methods.
- Population and Demography.
- Data Analysis and Big Data.
- Statistics in Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Education, Behavorial Sciences, Public Policy.
- Programming Techniques.
- Urban Sociology.
- Local Subjects:
- Statistical Theory and Methods.
- Population and Demography.
- Data Analysis and Big Data.
- Statistics in Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Education, Behavorial Sciences, Public Policy.
- Programming Techniques.
- Urban Sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (VIII, 53 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2016.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
- Summary:
- This book serves as a hands-on guide to the "acs" R package for demographers, planners, and other researchers who work with American Community Survey (ACS) data. It gathers the most common problems associated with using ACS data and implements functions as a package in the R statistical programming language. The package defines a new "acs" class object (containing estimates, standard errors, and metadata for tables from the ACS) with methods to deal appropriately with common tasks (e.g., creating and combining subgroups or geographies, automatic fetching of data via the Census API, mathematical operations on estimates, tests of significance, plots of confidence intervals).
- Contents:
- Purpose
- The Dawn of the ACS; the Natur of Estimates
- Census Data and the R Project
- Getting Started in R
- Working with the New Functions
- Exporting Data
- Additional Resources
- Appendix A.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9783319457727
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