This is a remarkable book, rich in detail, that delivers what the title promises. To master this book would take a long slow read, and would also involve working through the R tutorials that accompany many of the chapters. I (obviously) did not read it at anything like this sort of depth, because I have other things to do for the rest of the month. But I did read lightly through two thirds of the chapters, enjoying especially the discussion in Part III on complex dynamic systems, including the intro section by Saqr, et al., and the section on transition network analysis. For those concerned (as I am) about the tendency of analytics to apply generalizations to individuals, the final section on idiographic analytics, that is, "within-person analysis is conducted on a single person (N=1)." There's just so much stuff in this book, I really regret putting it aside and moving along. Open access.
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