Christopher N. Lawrence, Ph.D.

Useful R Resources

CRAN Task Views: of particular interest to political scientists are the Social Sciences, Econometrics, and Bayesian Inference task views.
Zelig: a unified front-end for R aimed at social scientists.
MCMCpack, developed by Andrew Martin and Kevin Quinn.
R by Example: Site by Ajay Shah, which includes brief documentation on using R for common econometric models.

Simon Jackman's website at Stanford, including lots of helpful Bayesian simulation examples (also see the PSCL site).
Gary King's website at Harvard, with working papers, Stata macros, and much more.

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Dr. Christopher N. Lawrence

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Department of Social Sciences

313 Lamar Bruni Vergara Science Center (LBVSC)

5201 University Blvd

Laredo, Texas 78041-1920 USA

Work: 956-326-2467

Fax: 956-326-2464