John Fox: Books and Software

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Supplementary materials for some of my books:

bullet John Fox, A Mathematical Primer for Social Statistics, Second Edition (Sage, 2021).
bullet John Fox, Regression Diagnostics: An Introduction, Second Edition (Sage, 2020).
bullet John Fox and Sanford Weisberg, An R Companion to Applied Regression, Third Edition (Sage, 2019): on-line appendices, data files, R scripts, errata, updates, and more.
bullet John Fox, Using the R Commander: A Point-and-Click Interface for R (Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2017): data files, errata and updates,
bullet John Fox, Applied Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models, Third Edition (Sage, 2016): appendices; datasets; data-analysis exercises; errata; Newanswers to odd-numbered exercises in the text; and bonus Chapters 25 on NewBayesian estimation of regression models, and 26 on Newcausal analysis of observational data (including directed acyclic causal graphs, "DAGs").

Selected R packages:

bullet The car ("companion to applied regression") and effects packages are associated with Fox and Weisberg, An R Companion to Applied Regression, Third Edition (see in books above).
bullet The cv package (written with Georges Monette) for cross-validation of regression models.
bullet The ivreg package (written with Achim Zeileis and Christian Kleiber) for instrumental-variables (including two-stage least-squares) regression.
bullet The matlib package (written with Michael Friendly and Phil Chalmers) for understanding matrices, linear algebra, and related topics.
bullet The polycor package for computing polychoric and polyserial correlations.
bullet The Rcmdr package (written with Manuel Munoz Marquez and Milan Bouchet-Valat), which provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for R.

My McMaster University home page (not actively maintained).

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