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Presentation Schedule (Spring 2002)

1/30 Presentation:Jonathan Wand (Cornell/CBRSS)
gThe Coordination of Contributions in U.S. House Campaigns.h(Job Talk)
2/6 Presentation:Nanny Wermuth (University of Mainz/Radcliffe Institute)
Wermuth, N. (2002) Analysing social science data with graphical Markov models. To appear in: Highly Structured Stochastic Systems. P. Green, N. Hjort & S. Richardson (eds.) Oxford University Press.
Wermuth, N. & Schuh, H.-J. (1999). Proof without words: sum of squared integers. Student, 3, 41-43
2/13 Presentation: Matthew Wand (Harvard/HSPH)
"Respiratory Health and Air Pollution: Additive Mixed Model Analysis." by B.A. Coull, J. Schwartz, and M.P. Wand
"Geoadditive Models." by E.E. Kamman and M.P. Wand
2/20 Presentation: Dan Gingerich (Harvard / Government)
"Varieties of Capitalism and Institutional Complementarities in the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Analysis." by Peter Hall and Daniel Gingerich
2/27 Presentation: Linda Tickle-Degnen (Boston College/ Psychology)
"Correlation and Contrast Analyses of Practitioner Judgments of Patients with Parkinson's Disease."
3/6 Presentation: Shane Jensen (Harvard/Statistics) and Samantha Cook (Harvard/Statistics)
"Bayesian and Maximum Likelihood Approaches to Mixture Modelling of Schizophrenia Laboratory Measures." by Shane Jensen, Mark Lenzenweger, and Donald Rubin.
Portions of this paper will appear in Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics, Vol. 6 and the Journal of Abnormal Psychology

"Working Memory Impairments in Schizophrenics: A Bayesian Bivariate IRT Approach." by Samantha Cook, John Barnard, Yungtai Lo, Donald Rubin, Michael Coleman, Stephen Matthysse, Deborah Levy, and Philip Holzman.
This paper has been submitted for publication in Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics, Vol. 6
3/13 Presentation: Brian A. Jacob (Harvard/KSG)
"Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating." by Brian A. Jacob and Steven Levitt
3/20 Presentation: Boris Groysberg (Harvard/HBS)
"Can They Take it With Them? The Portability of Star Knowledge WorkersEPerformance: Myth or Reality?" by Boris Groysberg
4/3 Presentation: Anne Sartori (Princeton/Politics/CBRSS)
"Reputations for Honesty and the Success of Diplomacy" by Anne Sartori
4/10 Presentation: Gerald Schneider (University of Konstanz/Public Policy and Management)
"'Fair Division' Among Sincere and Not So Sincere Players: An Experimental Assessment of Three Procedures" by Gerald Schneider and Ulrike Sabrina Kramer
4/17 Presentation: Paul Peterson (Harvard/Government)
``School Vouchers: Results from Randomized Experiments."by Paul Peterson.

4/24 Presentation: David van Dyk (Harvard/Statistics) and Kosuke Imai (Harvard/Government)
``Causal inference with general treatment regimes." by Kosuke Imai and David van Dyk.
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