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Resources for CEOdata

CEOdata is an R package aimed at facilitating the incorporation of microdata (individual responses) of public opinion polls in Catalonia into R, as performed by the “Centre d’Estudis d’Opinió” (CEO, Opinion Studies Center).

Feb 21, 2022 1 min read
Using the CEOdata package

CEOdata is a package that facilitates the incorporation of microdata (individual responses) of public opinion polls in Catalonia into R, as performed by the “Centre d’Estudis d’Opinió” (CEO, Opinion Studies Center). It has basically two main functions with a separate purpose:
Feb 21, 2022 12 min read
Resources for PolicyPortfolios

PolicyPortfolios is an R package aimed at providing tools for managing, measuring and visualizing policy portfolios. It simplifies the creation of data structures suitable for dealing with policy portfolios, that is, two-dimensional spaces of policy instruments and policy targets. It allows to generates measures of their characteristics and facilitates its visualization.

Mar 11, 2019 1 min read
Using PolicyPortfolios

Why PolicyPortfolios?

A policy portfolio is a collection of simple assessments of the presence or absense of state intervention in a specific area (Target) using a concrete state capacity (Instrument). How specific or general the area is, is up to the researcher. How broad or restricted is the collection of assessments is also up to the researcher (Adam, Knill, and Fernandez-i-Marı́n 2017). Using policy portfolios as objects of analysis allows political science to standardize comparitive policy analysis by providing a common ground of policy intervention, and represents a first step of comparing state intervention in different fields of public life.

Mar 11, 2019 11 min read
Resources for ggmcmc

ggmcmc is an R package aimed at providing tools for assessing and diagnosing convergence of Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations, as well as for graphically display results from full MCMC analysis. The package also facilitates the graphical interpretation of models by providing flexible functions to plot the results against observed variables.

Mar 7, 2019 2 min read
Agency proliferation: processing the dataset of institutional characteristics of regulatory agencies - RegGov 2018

Introduction

This tutorial shows how to process the dataset of institutional characteristics of regulatory agencies in R. It presents the dataset presented at the journal article entitled “Agency proliferation and the globalization of the regulatory state: Introducing a data set on the institutional features of regulatory agencies”, by Jacint Jordana, Xavier Fernández-i-Marín and Andrea C. Bianculli, published at Regulation & Governance (December 2018).
Dec 1, 2018 10 min read
Using ggmcmc

There is a pdf version of Using the ggmcmc package.

Why ggmcmc?

ggplot2, based on the grammar of graphics (Wilkinson et al. 2005), empowers R users by allowing them to flexibly crate graphics (Wickham 2009). Based on this idea, ggmcmc is aimed at bringing the design and implementation of ggplot2 to MCMC diagnostics, allowing Bayesian inference users to have better and more flexible visual diagnostic tools.

Mar 14, 2016 20 min read
Accés per terminal al diccionari de l'Institut d'Estudis Catalans

L'iec.sh és un guió de bash preparat per la terminal amb la finalitat d'accedir per línia de comandes al diccionari de l'Institut d'Estudis Catalans.

Jul 24, 2005 1 min read
R for statistical analysis in Political and Social Sciences - Basic Notes

Material

For any search related to R it is important to first take a look at the main page of the R-project http://www.r-project.org/. This is the main place to start looking for any documentation and help.

Dec 1, 2004 6 min read
R per a l'anàlisi estadística - Apunts bàsics

Materials

Per a qualsevol cerca relacionada amb R cal accedir primer de tot a la pàgina principal del projecte: http://www.r-project.org/. En aquest lloc podreu trobar tot tipus de documentació i ajut relacionat amb el projecte.

Dec 1, 2004 7 min read