By Eetu Mäkelä, professor in Digital Humanities (Human Sciences–Computing Interaction) at the University of Helsinki.

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People of all levels in the humanities and interpretive social sciences (henceforth abbreviated as human sciences) interested in whether statistical methods might help them in their own work.

Prerequisites: Absolutely none.

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If you do make use of this material, I'd naturally also appreciate a ping, as well as the possibility to merge any improvements to this version, even if neither of those is actually required by the license.

For access to the source code of this GitBook, please see this GitHub repository.