| Working with the American Community Survey in R: A Guide to Using the Acs Package 2016 Edition Contributor(s): Glenn, Ezra Haber (Author) |
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ISBN: 3319457713 ISBN-13: 9783319457710 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Probability & Statistics - General - Social Science | Demography - Business & Economics | Industries - Computers & Information Technology |
| Dewey: 005.11 |
| Series: Springerbriefs in Statistics |
| Physical Information: 0.13" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.23 lbs) 53 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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). |