- How did Smart Hans, the horse, manage to do mathematical calculations? Or did he not do them after all?
- What does blind taste testing of beverages from cups with the letters Q and M teach us about research methodology?
- How do Facebook accounts become primary sources of research?
- What is Artificial Intelligence?
- How does Deep Learning differ from Machine Learning?
- What are mediating and moderating variables?
- What is the effect size of my findings? How do I use R?
- How do I perform Regression Analysis in R? How do I perform Factor Analysis in R?

This book is a comprehensive manual for three knowledge fields:
- research methodology, statistical processing using the R language,
- learning the R programming language.

The authors have included a plethora of research tools capable of answering a multitude of questions in modern psychology and social sciences. It is a useful and functional tool for undergraduate and graduate students, trainers and trainees, researchers and professionals who need to refer to a direct source of information in order to accurately perform various statistical analyses and data management tasks. The book is reader-friendly without sacrificing its scientific rigor.