| 1/31 |
Presentation: Jasjeet Sekhon (Government), Michael Herron (Northwestern University, CBRSS), and Jonathan Wand (Cornell University)
. ``Voting Irregularities in Palm Beach County." by Jonathan N. Wand, Kenneth W. Shotts, Jasjeet S. Sekhon, Walter R. Mebane, Jr., Michael C. Herron, and Henry Brady. Keywords: outlier detection, breakdown point, least quantile difference estimator, least median of squares regression. See the election website for more information. Discussant: Naunihal Singh (Government). |
| 2/7 |
Presentation: Barry Burden (Government). ``The Vote-Stealing and Turnout Effects of Third-Party Candidates in U.S. Presidential Elections, 1968-1996." by Dean Lacy and Barry C. Burden. Keywords: third party, voting, multinomial probit. Discussant: Orit Kedar (Government). |
| 2/14 |
Presentation: Guohua Zhao (CBRSS). ``Perfect Random Trees and Voting framework." Keywords: tree methods, classification, ensemble methods. Discussant: Federico Girosi (MIT, CBRSS). |
| 2/21 |
Presentation: Jun Liu (Statistics). ``Finding Regulatory Binding Motifs in Genomic Sequences." Keywords: Gibbs sampler, motif finding, clustering, gene regulation. Discussant: Will Lowe (CBRSS). |
| 2/28 |
Presentation: Peter V. Marsden (Sociology). ``Interviewer Effects on Network Size for A Single-Gnerator Instrument." Keywords: name generators, egocentric networks, interviewer effects. Discussant: Ben Bishin (CBRSS). |
| 3/7 |
Presentation: Garrett Fitzmaurice (Biostatistics, School of Public Health). Garrett M. Fitzmaurice and Nan M. Laird, ``Generalized linear mixture models for handling nonignorable dropouts in longitudinal studies." Biostatistics Vol.1, No.2 (2000) pp.141-156. Keywords: Discrete data; Generalized estimating equations; Missing data; Nonresponse; Repeated measures. Discussant: Kosuke Imai (Government) |
| 3/14 |
Presentation: James Hudson (Harvard Medical School). Hudson JI, Laird NM, Betensky RA, ``Multivariate logistic regression for familial aggregation of two disorders: I. Development of models and methods.'' American Journal of Epidemiology. 2001;153:501-505; and Hudson JI, Laird NM, Betensky RA, Keck PE Jr, Pope HG Jr. ``Multivariate regression for familial aggregation of two disorders: II. Analysis of studies of eating and mood disorders." Am J Epidemiol. 2001;153:506-514. Keywords: Familial aggregation; Logistic regression models; Family studies; Quadratic exponential model; Generalized estimating equations; Eating disorders; Mood disorders Discussant:Jasjeet Sekhon (Government). |
| 3/21 |
Presentation: Christopher Winship (Sociology). ``Education's Effect on Mental Ability: The Use Longitidunal data to estimate causal effects." Keywords: longitidunal data, causal effects. Discussant: Aslaug Asgeirsdottir (Harvard-MIT Data Center). |
| 4/4 |
Presentation: Torben Iversen (Government). ``An Asset Theory of Social Policy Preferences." Keywords: Estimation of social policy preferences, multiple imputation, regression on micro and macro data, measurement of skills. Discussant: Matthew Lebo (CBRSS). |
| 4/11 |
Presentation: Joshua Angrist (Department of Economics, MIT). ``Instrumental Variables Estimates of the Effect of Subsidized Training on the Quantiles of Trainee Earnings." by Alberto Abadie, Joshua Angrist, and Guido Imbens. Keywords: quantile regression, treatment effects, dummy endogenous variables. Discussant: Johnathan Wand (Government, Cornell University). |
| 4/18 |
Presentation: Olav Sorenson (Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA) and Lee Fleming (Harvard Business School). ``Science and the diffusion of knowledge" by Olav Sorenson and Lee Fleming. Keywords: science, patents, information diffusion. Discussant: Scott Stern (MIT Sloan School). |
| 4/25 |
Presentation: Itai Sened (Washington University, St. Louis). ``Visualizing the Social Sciences: A Philosophical Rationale" by Itai Sened. Keywords: Visual Data Analysis, Induction, Deduction, Relativism, Naive Falsificationism, Scientific inquiry through matching pictures. Discussant: Micah Altman (Harvard-MIT Data Center) |
| 5/2 |
Presentation: Jacques Hymans (Government). ``Using quantitative content analysis to measure national identity." Keywords: identity and beliefs, text analysis, quantitative content analysis, measurement validity, measurement reliability. |
| Fall 2005 | Spring 2006 |
| Fall 2004 | Spring 2005 |
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| Fall 2000 | Spring 2001 |
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