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Serves as a hands-on guide to using the "acs" package in R, with worked examples
Demonstrates the power of geographical output (visual displays of data via maps)
Deals with real details about ACS data and sampling structure
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Statistics (BRIEFSSTATIST)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- American Community Survey
- R package
- census data
- US Census Bureau
- urban studies
- estimates
- acs
- acs.R
- geographic output
- statistical graphing
- data structure
- sampling structure
- weighting
- random sampling
- random sample
- margin of error
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Urban Studies & Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Ezra Haber Glenn
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Working with the American Community Survey in R
Book Subtitle: A Guide to Using the acs Package
Authors: Ezra Haber Glenn
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Statistics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45772-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-45771-0Published: 13 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-45772-7Published: 06 October 2016
Series ISSN: 2191-544X
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5458
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 53
Topics: 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