| 9/20 | Organizational Meeting |
| 9/27 |
Presentation: Gary King (Government) ``Improving Forecasts of State Failure." by Gary King and Langche Zeng. Keywords: case-control studies, selection bias, neural networks. Discussants: Ben Bishin (Harvard-MIT Data Center) and Mike Connell (Graduate School of Education). |
| 10/4 |
Presentation: Michael Herron (CBRSS, Northwestern University) ``The Source of Gridlock: Divided Government or Preference Conflict?'' Keywords: ARCH, volatility, risk, efficient markets, financial market analysis. Discussant: David Kane (Numeric Investors). |
| 10/11 |
Presentation: Xiu Li (Government) and Yaming Yu (Statistics). ``A Missing Data Approach to the Ecological Inference Problem." Keywords: ecological inference, missing data, hierarchical Bayesian model, Markov Chain Monte Carlo(MCMC). Discussant: Christopher Winship (Sociology). |
| 10/18 |
Presentation: Steve Wang (Statistics). ``Quantifying Passive and Driven Mechanisms in Large-Scale Evolutionary Trends (figures)." Keywords: evolutonary biology, analysis of skewness, trend partitioning, R-squared. Discussant: James Honaker (Government). |
| 10/25 |
Presentation: Rebecca Betensky (Biostatistics). ``Testing and Adjusting for Selection Bias in a Partially Retrospective Molecular Genetic Neuro-Oncology Study." by Rebecca Betensky, David N. Louis, and J. Gregory Cairncross. Keywords: Bonferroni correction, spanning tree, glioma. Discussant: Aslaug Asgeirsdottir (Harvard-MIT Data Center). |
| 11/1 |
Presentation: Matthew Lebo (Harvard-MIT Data Center). ``Long (not perfect) Memory: Fractional Integration and Models of Governing Party Support in Britain." by Matthew Lebo and Harold Clarke. Keywords: time series, partisanship, fractional integration. Discussant: Kim Sheridan (Graduate School of Education). |
| 11/8 |
Presentation: Erin Kammann (Biostatistics). ``Geoadditive Models." by E.E. Kammann and M.P. Wand. Keywords: Additive models, disease mapping, geostatistics, kriging, mixed models, nonparametric regression, penalised splines, restricted maximum likelihood. Discussant: Will Lowe (CBRSS). |
| 11/15 |
Presentation: Benjamin Deufel and Orit Kedar (Government) ``But Do They Really Vote? Correcting for Overreporting of Turnout." Keywords: overreporting, sampling, discounted probabilities, OLS. Discussant: Kosuke Imai (Government). |
| 11/22 |
Presentation: Akio Sone (Harvard-MIT Data Center). ``The copycatting fiscal behavior of local governments and spatial econometric models." Keywords: fiscal surveys, spatial econometric models. Discussant: Jie Huang (Biostatistics). |
| 11/29 |
Presentation: Micah Altman (Harvard-MIT Data Center). ``Dividing Light from Dark: Quantitative Standards for Detecting Gerrymanders" by Micah Altman and Michael McDonald. Keywords: redistricting, combinatoric optimization. Discussant: Federico Girosi (MIT, CBRSS). |
| 12/6 |
Presentation: David van Dyk (Statistics). ``Analysis of Energy Spectrum With Low Photon Counts Via Bayesian Posterior Simulation," by van Dyk, D. A., Connors, A., Kashyap, V. L., Siemiginowska, A. (2001). The Astrophysical Journal. Keywords: Bayesian hierarchical modeling, Poisson mixture models, Astro-statistics. For more information about about the Astro-Statistics, see its homepage. Discussant: Guohua Zhao (CBRSS). |
| 12/13 |
Presentation: Lee Fleming (Harvard Business School) and Phil Bromiley (Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota). ``A Variable Risk Propensity Model of Technological Risk Taking." Keywords: negative binomial dispersion models, risk taking, invention, patent citation data Discussant: Matthew Lebo (Harvard-MIT Data Center). |
| Fall 2005 | Spring 2006 |
| Fall 2004 | Spring 2005 |
| Fall 2003 | Spring 2004 |
| Fall 2002 | Spring 2003 |
| Fall 2001 | Spring 2002 |
| Fall 2000 | Spring 2001 |
| Fall 1999 | Spring 2000 |