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Tuesday, July 9 • 15:30 - 15:50
Handling Data from Social Science Surveys with the 'Memisc' Package - Martin Elff, Zeppelin Universität, Friedrichshafen

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While R provides an excellent infrastructure for advanced statistical data analysis and graphics, it is by itself not well-suited to help users from the social science to face the typical challenges involved in the preparation of data from social science surveys. This is a reason by many social scientists stick to commercial software packages such as Stata and SPSS. The aim open-source package 'memisc' provides a comprehensive infrastructure for the preparation of social science survey data. It allows dealing with variable labels, value labels, and user-defined missing values. It provides easy ways to recode data and to produce data codebooks. It thus allows social scientists to become independent of commercial software packages.
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Martin Elff

Prof. Dr., Zeppelin Universität, Friedrichshafen
Martin Elff is a professor of political sociology at Zeppelin University (Friedrichshafen, Germany). He is the author of "Data Management with R: A Guide for Social Scientists" (Sage Publications) and of three R packages published on CRAN. He has published research articles on electoral... Read More →

Tuesday July 9, 2024 15:30 - 15:50 CEST
Pinzgau + Tennegau
  Social sciences
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