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Part I: Introduction to data analysis and exploratory tecniques
- Data frames
- Cluster analysis
- Principal component analysis

Part 2: Normal linear regression and its generalizations
- Polynomial regression
- Multiple regression
- Logistic and multinomial regression
- Beta regression
- Poisson and negative binomial regression

Part 3: Panel data analysis
- Balanced and unbalanced panel, micro and macro panel
- Modeling the level of the dependent variable
- Modeling change of the dependent variable
- Fixed effects and random effects models for categorical variables and continuous variables

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Fox,J. and Weisberg, S. (2010), An R companion to applied regression, 2nd Edition, SAGE publications
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Andreb, H-J, Golsch, K., Schmidt, A.W. (2013), Applied panel data analysis for economic and social
surveys, Springer. Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4