2006 Spring Presentation Schedule
| Applied Statistics Workshop |
| CGIS North, 1737 Cambridge St., Room 354 |
| Wednesdays, 12 noon - 1:30 PM |
| February 1 |
| James Greiner |
| Department of Statistics, Harvard University |
| Ecological Inference in Larger Tables: Bounds, Correlations, Individual-Level Stories, and a More Flexible Model |
| February 8 |
| Alexis Diamond |
| Department of Government, Harvard University |
| The Effects of UN Intervention after Civil War |
| February 15 |
| Michael Kellermann |
| Department of Government, Harvard University |
| Estimating Ideal Points in the British House of Commons |
| February 22 |
| Rustyam Ibragimov |
| Department of Economics, Harvard University |
| A Tale of Two Tails: Peakedness Properties in Inheritance Models of Evolutionary Theory |
| March 1 |
| Janet Rosenbaum |
| Program on Health Policy, Harvard University |
| Do virginity pledges cause virginity?: Estimating the efficacy of sexual abstinence pledges |
| March 8 |
| Roland Fryer |
| Department of Economics, Harvard University |
| Measuring the compactness of political districting plans |
| March 15 |
| Felix Elwert |
| Department of Sociology, Harvard University |
| Trial marriage reconsidered: The effect of cohabitation on divorce |
| March 22 |
| Jeff Gill |
| Department of Political Science, University of California - Davis |
| Elicited Priors for Bayesian Model Specifications in Political Science Research |
| March 29 |
| No Session - Spring Break |
| April 5 |
| Tianxi Cai and L.J. Wei |
| Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health |
| Model evaluation and selection via prediction |
| Supplemental paper: Evaluating prediction rules for t-year survivors with censored regression models |
| Supplemental paper: Model Evaluation Based on the Distribution of Estimated Absolute Prediction Error |
| April 12 |
| Matthew Harding |
| Department of Economics, MIT |
| Evaluating Policy Counterfactuals in Voting Models with Aggregate Heterogeneity |
| Supplemental paper: Using a Laplace approximation to estimate the random coefficients logit model by non-linear least squares |
| April 19 |
| Gerard van den Berg |
| Department of Economics, Free University of Amsterdam |
| An Economic Analysis of Exclusion Restrictions for Instrumental Variable Estimation |
| April 26 |
| Brian Ripley |
| Department of Statistics, Oxford University |
| Visualization for classification and clustering |
| May 3 |
| Ben Hansen |
| Department of Statistics, University of Michigan |
| Matching with prognosis scores: A new method of adjustment for comparative studies |
Archive of past presentations
| Fall 2005 | Spring 2006 |
| Fall 2004 | Spring 2005 |
| Fall 2003 | Spring 2004 |
| Fall 2002 | Spring 2003 |
| Fall 2001 | Spring 2002 |
| Fall 2000 | Spring 2001 |