John Fox's Home Page
This website is no longer actively
maintained.
"He who loves practice without theory is like the
sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never
knows where he may be cast." -- Leonardo
da Vinci, 1452-1519
"The
secret of the demagogue is to appear as dumb as his audience
so that these people can believe themselves as smart as he
is." -- Karl Kraus, 1874-1936
"[R]eality must take precedence over
public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard
P. Feynman. 1918-1988
"Ignorance more frequently begets
confidence than does knowledge." -- Charles Darwin.
1809-1882
"Certainement qui est en droit de vous
rendre absurde est en droit de vous rendre injuste." --
Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet) 1694-1778
Selected Short Courses,
Lectures, Workshops, Tutorials, and Talks
Regression Graphics: Added-variable and
component+residual plots, as implemented in the car and
effects packages for R (November 2022, CANSSI Statistical Software
Conference): slides, R
script
Regression Diagnostics (May 2022, SORA/TABA
Workshop)
Introduction
to the R Statistical Computing Environment Lecture Series
(July 2021, cancelled,
ICPSR Summer Program)
Webinar: Using the R Commander in
Basic Statistics Courses (March 2018, American Statistical
Association/Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences
Section)
Visualizing
Simultaneous Linear Equations, Geometric Vectors, and
Least-Squares Regression with the matlib
Package for R (June 2016, useR! Conference, Stanford)
Structural Equation Modeling with the sem
package for R, Writing R packages, Teaching Statistics Using R
and the R Commander (January 2016, IQS Barcelona, Spain)
Linear Models, Logit and Probit Models, Generalized Linear
Models (June 2010, York Summer
Programme in Data Analysis)
Introduction
to Nonparametric Regression (May 2005, ESRC Oxford Spring
School)
Note: To reduce duplication,
I've listed the most recent occasion on which I addressed a
particular topic.
Current Books:
Information on John Fox, A Mathematical Primer
for Social Statistics, Second Edition (Sage,
2021).
Information on John Fox, Regression
Diagnostics: An Introduction, Second Edition
(Sage, 2020)
Information on John Fox and Sanford Weisberg, An R Companion to Applied
Regression, Third Edition (Sage, 2019), including access
to on-line appendices, data files, R scripts, errata, updates,
and more.
Information
on John Fox, Using
the R Commander: A Point-and-Click Interface for R
(Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2017), including access to data files,
errata and updates,
Information on John Fox, Applied
Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models, Third
Edition (Sage, 2016), including access to
appendices, datasets, data-analysis exercises, errata, answers to odd-numbered exercises in the text,
and bonus Chapter 25 on Bayesian estimation
of regression models and Chapter 26 on causal analysis of
observation data.
Information on John Fox,
Nonparametric Simple Regression: Smoothing Scatterplots
(Sage, 2000), and
Multiple and Generalized Nonparametric Regression (Sage,
Information on Robert Stine and John Fox, eds.
Statistical Computing Environments for Social Research
(Sage, 1996).
Statistical Software:
candisc
(R package for canonical discriminant analysis), by
Michael Friendly and John Fox.
car
(Companion to Applied Regression) package for R.
Software associated with Fox and Weisberg, An R Companion to Applied
Regression, Second Edition.
effects
(R
package for effect displays), by John Fox, Sanford
Weisberg, and Jangman Hong.
heplots (R
package for visualizing hypothesis tests in multivariate
linear models), by John Fox, Michael Friendly, and
Georges Monette.
ivreg (R package for
instrumental variables regression), by John Fox,
Christian Kleiber, and Achim Zeileis.
matlib (R
package for learning linear algebra), by Michael
Friendly and John Fox.
polycor (R
package for polychoric and polyserial correlations).
Rcmdr
(R package, a basic-statistics graphical-user-interface for
R).
RcmdrPlugin.survival (Rcmdr plug-inpackage
for survival analysis).
sem (R package for structural equation modeling),
by John Fox, Zhenghua Nie, and Jarrett Byrnes.
Some
additions to Cook and Weisberg's Arc software.
Some
of the information on this web site is in the form of Portable
Document Format (PDF) files. A free viewer for PDF files, Adobe Reader, is
available from the Adobe web site.
Contact me by email:
jfox AT mcmaster.ca
Last
Modified: 2023-07-04 John Fox, jfox AT mcmaster.ca.