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1、AdvancesinSocialScienceResearchUsingRForothertitlesinthisseries,gotowww.springer.com/series/694H.D.VinodEditorAdvancesinSocialScienceResearchUsingR123EditorHrishikeshD.Vinod,Ph.D.DepartmentofEconomicsFordhamUniversity441E.FordhamRoadBronxNY10458USAISBN978-1

2、-4419-1763-8e-ISBN978-1-4419-1764-5DOI10.1007/978-1-4419-1764-5SpringerNewYorkDordrechtHeidelbergLondonLibraryofCongressControlNumber:2009942719cSpringerScience+BusinessMedia,LLC2010Allrightsreserved.Thisworkmaynotbetranslatedorcopiedinwholeorinpartwithout

3、thewrittenpermissionofthepublisher(SpringerScience+BusinessMedia,LLC,233SpringStreet,NewYork,NY10013,USA),exceptforbriefexcerptsinconnectionwithreviewsorscholarlyanalysis.Useinconnectionwithanyformofinformationstorageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,comput

4、ersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilarmethodologynowknownorhereafterdevelopedisforbidden.Theuseinthispublicationoftradenames,trademarks,servicemarks,andsimilarterms,eveniftheyarenotidentifiedassuch,isnottobetakenasanexpressionofopinionastowhetherornottheyaresubj

5、ecttoproprietaryrights.Printedonacid-freepaperSpringerispartofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia(www.springer.com)ToMyDaughterRita,Son-in-LawDaleKnause,andMyGrandchildren:DevinVinodKnauseandTroyVinodKnausePrefaceQuantitativesocialscienceresearchhasbeenexpandingd

6、uetotheavail-abilityofcomputersanddataoverthepastfewdecades.YetthetextbooksandsupplementsforresearchersdonotadequatelyhighlighttherevolutioncreatedbytheRsoftware[2]andgraphicssystem.Risfastbecomingthelin-guafrancaofquantitativeresearchwithsome2000freespecia

7、lizedpackages,wherethelatestversionscanbedownloadedinseconds.Manypackagessuchas“car”[1]developedbysocialscientistsarepopularamongallscientists.Anearly2009article[3]intheNewYorkTimesnotesthatstatisticians,engineersandscientistswithoutcomputerprogrammingskill

8、sfindR“easytouse.”AcommonlanguageRcanreadilypromotedeepermutualrespectandunderstandingofuniqueproblemsfacingquantitativeworkinvarioussocialsciences.Oftenthesolutionsdevelopedinonefieldcanbeextendedanduse