| 9/18 | Introductions and Overview (Lunch provided every session) |
| 9/25 | Presentation: Kosuke
Imai (Government) ``The importance of statistical methodology for analyzing data from field experimentation: Evaluating voter mobilization strategies." Reader: Tao Li (Government) |
| 10/2 | Presentation: David Harding
(Sociology and Social Policy) `` Counterfactual Models of Neighborhood Effects: The Effect of Neighborhood Poverty on High School Dropout and Teenage Pregnancy." Reader: Felix Elwert |
| 10/9 | Presentation:
James Robins
(School of Public Health) Estimation of Optimal Treatment or Sequential Decision Strategies from Non Experimental Data Using Structural Nested Models |
| 10/16 | Presentation: Anders Corr
(Government) " Geography, Power, and the Size of Nations: An Agent-Based Model of the International System." |
| 10/23 | Presentation: Tom Griffiths
(BCS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) " Randomness and Coincidences: Reconciling Intuition and Probability." by Tom Griffiths and Joshua Tennenbaum. |
| 10/30 | Presentation: Stephen L. Morgan
(Sociology, Cornell University) "Methodologist as Arbitrator: Five Models for Black-White Differences in the Causal Effect of Expectations on Attainment." |
| 11/6 | Presentation: Ezra Zuckerman (Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Shrewd, Crude, or Simply Deluded? Market Classification and the Internet Stock Phenomenon." |
| 11/13 | Presentation: Miguel Hernan
(School of Public Health) "Estimation of Dynamic Treatment Regimes" |
| 11/20 | Presentation: Alan Agresti
(Statistics, University of Florida) "Improving Confidence Intervals for Proportions, Differences of Proportions, and Odds Ratios" |
| 11/27 | Thanksgiving
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| 12/4 | Presentation: Tao Li
(Government) "Empirical Study of Legislative Rule." by Tao Li. |
| 12/11 | Presentation: Garrett Fitzmaurice
(School of Public Health) "Longitudinal/Missing Data." by Garrett Fitzmaurice. |
| Fall 2005 | Spring 2006 |
| Fall 2004 | Spring 2005 |
| Fall 2003 | Spring 2004 |
| Fall 2002 | Spring 2003 |
| Fall 2001 | Spring 2002 |
| Fall 2000 | Spring 2001 |