TY  - BOOK
AU  - Auerbach,Charles
AU  - Zeitlin,Wendy
TI  - Making Your Case: Using R for Program Evaluation
SN  - 9780190228095
AV  - H62 -- .A849 2015eb 
U1  - 005.13/3 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press, Incorporated
KW  - Evaluation research (Social action programs) - Data processing
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Making Your Case: Using R for Program Evaluation -- Copyright -- Contents -- 1. Introduction to Program Evaluation in Social Service Agencies -- 2. Issues in Program Evaluation -- 3. Getting Started With R -- 4. Getting Your Data Into R -- 5. Basic Graphics With R -- 6. Making Your Case by Describing Your Data -- 7. Making Your Case by Looking at Factors Related  to a Desired Outcome -- 8. Making Your Case Using Linear Regression With R -- 9. Making Your Case Using Logistic Regression With R -- 10. Bringing It All Together: Using The Clinical Record  to Evaluate a Program -- Appendix A. Resources for Research Methods -- Appendix B. Terminology Used in This Book -- Appendix C. R Packages Referred to in This Book -- Appendix D. Clinical Record/Filemaker Field Names -- References -- Index -- R Functions Index
N2  - This book introduces readers to R, a freely available statistical language, to conduct program evaluations. The book uses case studies to illustrate techniques that include data description and visualization, bivariate analysis, simple and multiple regression, and logistic regression. There is a comprehensive example using The Clinical Record as a data repository
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ER  -