Bibliograph

Working with the American Community Survey in R, A Guide to Using the acs Package, by Ezra Haber Glenn

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Working with the American Community Survey in R, A Guide to Using the acs Package, by Ezra Haber Glenn

Language

eng

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Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Working with the American Community Survey in R

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

960446339

Responsibility statement

by Ezra Haber Glenn

Series statement

Springer eBooksSpringerBriefs in Statistics,, 2191-544X

Sub title

A Guide to Using the acs Package

Summary

This book serves as a hands-on guide to the "acs" R package for demographers, planners, and other researchers who work with American Community Survey (ACS) data. It gathers the most common problems associated with using ACS data and implements functions as a package in the R statistical programming language. The package defines a new "acs" class object (containing estimates, standard errors, and metadata for tables from the ACS) with methods to deal appropriately with common tasks (e.g., creating and combining subgroups or geographies, automatic fetching of data via the Census API, mathematical operations on estimates, tests of significance, plots of confidence intervals).--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Purpose -- The Dawn of the ACS; the Natur of Estimates -- Census Data and the R Project -- Getting Started in R -- Working with the New Functions -- Exporting Data -- Additional Resources -- Appendix A

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