2/2

Organizational meeting

2/9

Professor Christopher Winship, Depratment of Sociology, Harvard University. "Latent 
Class Models for Contingency Tables with Missing Data" (keywords: latent class 
approach, missing data, log linear models)
Discussant: Professor Phil Paolino, University of Texas at Austin, visiting scholar at 
CBRSS

2/16

Bernard Tamas, PhD, Harvard MIT Data Center.  "Party Theater and The Near Demise 
of The Federation of Young Democrats" (keywords: ordered logit, pre-test,post-test 
factor analysis)
Discussant: Todd Bodner, Department of Psychology, Harvard University

2/23

Professor Gary King, Department of Government, Harvard University: "Improving 
Quantitative Studies of International Conflict: A Conjecture" 
Discussant: Professor John Barnard, Department of Statistics, Harvard University

3/1

Micah Altman, Harvard-MIT Data Center, with Jeff Gill, and Mike McDonald: "Practical 
Maximum Likelihood" (keywords: computational issues, ML calculation, confidence 
intervals, global optimality) 
Discussant: Ruth Turley, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

3/8

Professor James M. Robins, Department of Epidemiology Harvard School of Public 
Health: "Association, Causation, and Marginal Structural Models", and "Marginal 
Structural Models to Estimate the Causal Effect of Zidovudine on the Survival of HIV-
Positive Men"  (Keywords: causal inference, longitudinal data, direct and indirect 
effects)
Discussant: Todd Bodner, Department of Psychology, Harvard University

3/15

Professor Alan Zaslavsky, Harvard School of Medicine: "Introduction to Analysis 
of Surveys, and Robust Analysis of Data from the 1990 Census Post Enumeration 
Survey" (Keywords: survey sampling, robustness, census undercount, weighting, 
t distribution). Related presentation slides 
Discussant: Professor Barry Burden, Department of Government, Harvard University

3/22

Professor John Campbell, Joao Cocco, Francisco Gomes, and Pascal Maenhout, 
Department of economics, Harvard University: "Investing Retirement Wealth: A Life-
Cycle Model" (Keywords: life-cycle model, portfolio choice, Social Security reform,
labor income risk)
Discussant: Jennifer Hill, Department of Statistics, Harvard University

4/5

Professor Sharon-Lise Normand, Department of Health Care Policy: "Validating 
Recommendations for Coronary Angiography Following Acute Myocardial Infarction 
in the Elderly: A Matched Analysis Using Propensity Scores" (Keywords: AMI, 
coronary angiography, practice guidelines, clinical indication, propensity score, caliper 
matching)
Discussant: Brady baybeck, Harvard-MIT Data Center

4/12

Professor Phil Paolino, CBRSS, Harvard University: "A moment-Matching Approach 
to Maximum-Likelihood Estimation of the Beta Distribution"(Keywords: Maximum 
Likelihood, Beta distribution, Monte Carlo)
Discussant: David J. Harding, Department of Sociology, Harvard University    

4/19

Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Harvard Business School: "Reciprocity and Power in the Venture 
Capital Market" (Keywords: directional networks, dyadic dependence, p-star)
Discussant: Felix Veit Elwert, Department of Sociology, Harvard University 

4/26

5/3

Professor Donald B. Rubin, Department of  Statistics, Harvard University: "Statistical 
Issues in Estimating the Causal Effects of Industry Misconduct on Damages Due to 
Smoking" 
Discussant: David Kane, Numeric Investors.