Professor Robert Andersen
Department of Sociology
University of Toronto
http://individual.utoronto.ca/andersen

Some General Links for Quantitative Social Scientists

Statistical Computing with R

• CRAN (the Comprehensive R Archive Network)
• R Email lists
• R-WinEdt (adapts WinEdt to edit R-scripts)
• Some R functions for Modern Regression (used in my course at the ICPSR)
• Jeff Gill's page of S resources
• Jonathan Baron's R reference card
• Tom Short's R reference card
• John Fox's An R and S-Plus Companion to Applied Regression
• John Maindonald's Using R for Data Analysis and Graphics
• W.N.Venables and B.D. Ripley's Modern Applied Statistics with S. Fourth Edition

Typesetting with LaTeX

• MikTeX (easiest way to install LaTeX)
• Ghostscript (PostScript interpreter used for some LaTeX applications)
• WinEdt (for editing LaTeX files)
• LaTable (easily makes LaTeX tables)
• BiBEdit (useful for creating BibTeX bibliography databases)
• TeXPoint (LaTeX add-in for PowerPoint)
• Adobe Acrobat Reader (needed for PDF LaTeX)

Some Links for Political Sociologists

Professional Associations, Organizations and Research Groups

• American Political Science Association
• American Sociological Association
• Canadian Political Science Association
• Canadian Sociological Association
• EPOP: Specialist group of the Political Studies Association (UK) for study of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.
• Equalsoc: EU network for research on "Economic Change, Quality of Life and Social Cohesion"
• ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitaive Methods of Social Science
• International Sociological Association
• ISA Research Committee 28 (RC 28) on Social Stratification and Mobility
• Midwest Political Science Association

Scientific Journals

• American Journal of Political Science
• American Political Science Review
• American Sociological Review
• American Joournal of Sociology
• British Journal of Political Science
• Canadian Journal of Political Science
• Canadian Journal of Sociology
• Canadian Review of Sociology
• Electoral Studies: An International Journal on Voting and Electoral Systems and Strategy
• European Sociological Review
• Journal of Politics
• Social Forces

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