John Fox's
Home PageDepartment
of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4
"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
Sociology 3H6
(2011-2012): Research Techniques and Data Analysis
Sociology 6Z3
(Fall 2007): Quantitative Methods in Sociology
Sociology 740
(Winter 2012, preliminary): Applications of Quantitative Methods
Sociology 761
(Fall 2006): Statistical Applications in Social Research
Introduction to the R Statistical Computing Environment (June/July 2011, ICPSR Summer Program, Ann Arbor)
Linear Models, Logit and Probit Models, Generalized Linear Models (June 2010, York Summer
Programme in Data Analysis)
Regression Diagnostics (November 2009, FIOCRUZ Rio de
Janeiro - Brasil)
Programming in R (June/July 2009, ICPSR
Summer Program, Ann Arbor)
An Introduction to
Structural Equation Modeling (November 2008, Programa de Computação Científica - FIOCRUZ Rio de
Janeiro - Brasil)
Introduction to
Nonparametric Regression (May 2005, ESRC Oxford Spring School)
Current Books:
Information on John Fox and Sanford Weisberg, An R Companion to Applied Regression, Second Edition (Sage, 2011).
Information on John Fox, Applied Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models, Second Edition (Sage, 2008), including access to appendices, datasets, exercises, and errata.
Information on John Fox, Nonparametric Simple Regression: Smoothing Scatterplots (Sage, 2000), and Multiple and Generalized Nonparametric Regression (Sage, 2000), including access to datasets and errata.
Information on Robert Stine and
John Fox, eds.
Statistical Computing Environments for Social Research
(Sage, 1996).
Information on John Fox, Regression
Diagnostics: An Introduction (Sage, 1991)
Some additions to Cook and
Weisberg's Arc software.
car (Companion to
Applied Regression) package for R.
Software associated with Fox and Weisberg, An
R Companion to Applied Regression, Second Edition.
sem (Structural Equation
Models) package for R.
polycor (R package for polychoric and polyserial correlations).
Rcmdr package for R (a
basic-statistics graphical-user-interface for R).
An R Commander plug-in package for survival analysis: The RcmdrPlugin.survival package.
effects (R package for
effect displays), by John Fox and Jangman Hong.
Visual Hypothesis Tests in
Multivariate Linear Models: The heplots Package for R,
by John Fox, Michael Friendly, and Georges Monette.
candisc (R package for canonical discriminant analysis), by Michael Friendly and John Fox.
Effect
Displays for Multinomial and Proportional-Odds Logit Models,
by John Fox and Robert Andersen (paper published in Sociological
Methodology 2006, along with R code, examples, and example data sets).
Contact me by email: jfox AT mcmaster.ca
