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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Topics for 2012 Summer Statistical Workshop!

Please suggest topics for the 2012 Summer Statistcal Workshop! Last May, we organized two very successful 3-day workshops on Spatial Regression Analysis by Paul Voss and Multilevel Modeling (MLM) Using Stata by Brandon Bartels, posted here. Below is a menu of possible topics and speakers. Please add your own ideas!
  • Learning about Causal Mechanisms from Experimental and Observational Studies. Kosuke Imai. See his amazing web-page. 
  • Field Experiments. 1-3 days of morning and computer lab sessions. Don Green and Alan Gerber in Political Science are completing a textbook on field experiments and Green could be induced to give a workshop. 
  • Statistical Graphs (Bill Jacoby, Political Science, MSU). Morning and afternoon sessions, 1-2 days. The focus would be on how to present statistical (e.g., regression) results in graphs instead of tables, in Stata, Excel and R when stat packages are not up to the task.
  • Matching. 
  • Handling Missing Data: Multiple Imputation. (Tenko Raykov, College of Education, MSU). 1-2 days. My preference would be to have the presenter show people how to use Gary King’s Amelia software, which is applicable to time-series and comparative settings. Then the presenter would show people how to combine the multiply imputed datasets in doing analysis in STATA (and SPSS?).
 


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