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November 29, 2008
QSR Hosted Workshop: NVivo 8 Fundamentals
| Title | QSR Hosted Workshop: NVivo 8 Fundamentals |
| Event | Workshop |
| Date | 02 February 2009 |
| Time | 9:00am - 4:00pm (US Pacific Standard Time) |
| Venue | Executrain |
| Address | 101 Spear Street, One Rincon Center |
| City | San Francisco, CA |
| Country | United States |
| Detail | This hands-on workshop is a basic introduction to NVivo 8. At the end of the day, you should have enough knowledge to get up and running with your own project. Using sample data, this workshop will teach you how to create a project and how to represent and work with data sources including documents, audio, video and pictures. You will also be given a demonstration of some of the tools to assist in the analysis of your data. Time is allocated during the afternoon session to practice with your own data. Workshop costs include morning and afternoon refreshments. Desktop computers are provided and you’ll receive your own comprehensive workbook. Note: For a complete introduction to NVivo 8, QSR recommends that you also complete a second one day workshop called 'Moving on in NVivo 8'. A ‘Moving On’ workshop is scheduled on February 3. Click on the related link below for more information. Price: US$350 for one day workshop or US$600 for two day workshop from 2 - 3 February (taxes are not applicable). Student Price: US$300 for one day workshop or US$500 for two day workshop from 2 - 3 February (full time students only and taxes are not applicable). |
For more information and registration forms, go to QSR website:
http://www.qsrinternational.com/training-and-events_calendar_detail.aspx?view=757
Posted by yan at 08:47 PM
QSR Hosted eDemo: NVivo 8 - 06 January 2009
| Title | QSR Hosted eDemo: NVivo 8 |
| Event Type | Webcast |
| Start Date | 06 January 2009 |
| End Date | 06 January 2009 |
| Time | 10:00am (US Eastern Standard Time) |
| Venue | Conducted via the Internet |
| Detail | This is a free interactive web demonstration conducted by QSR. Participants will be provided with an overview of the key features of our NVivo 8 software and their potential use in the research process. There will also be an opportunity for questions during the session. Places are limited and an Internet connection and telephone are required. |
For more details and registration, go to QSR web site:
http://www.qsrinternational.com/training-and-events_calendar_detail.aspx?view=837
Posted by yan at 08:33 PM
November 24, 2008
New IES Report from the National Center for Education Statistics: "Public Elementary and Secondary School Student Enrollment and Staff From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2006-07"
The National Center for Education Statistics within the Institute of Education Sciences has released the report "Public Elementary and Secondary School Student Enrollment and Staff From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2006-07."
This report presents 2006-07 school year information at the national and state level on student enrollment by grade and by race/ethnicity within grade, the numbers of teachers and other education staff, and several student/staff ratios.
To view, download and print the report as a PDF file, please visit:
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2009305
Posted by ronbo at 12:38 PM
Recent ICPSR updates and additions - New Releases through 2008-11-23
Below is a list of new data collection additions to the ICPSR data archive
along with a list of released data collections that have been updated:
New Additions
21440 American National Election Studies: 2006 ANES Pilot Study
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR21440
23800 Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States]: Hate Crime Data,
1999 [Record-Type Files]
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR23800
23821 Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States]: Hate Crime Data,
1998 [Record-Type Files]
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR23821
23840 Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States]: Hate Crime Data,
1997 [Record-Type Files]
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR23840
23841 Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States]: Hate Crime Data,
1996 [Record-Type Files]
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR23841
Updates
2642 ABC News "World News Tonight" Starr Report Poll #5, September 1998
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02642
4381 Survey of Community, Crime, and Health, 1995, 1998 [United States]
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04381
4690 Americans' Changing Lives: Waves I, II, III, and IV, 1986, 1989, 1994,
and 2002
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04690
8600 National Hospital Discharge Survey: 1979, 1980, and 1981
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08600
9043 Policy Research on Aging and Mental Health Services (PRAMHS) Project
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09043
22160 The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) --
Israel, 2005-2006
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR22160
You can also view a list of all studies added and updated in the last ninety
days by visiting the ICPSR Web site at
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/access/recent.html.
Posted by ronbo at 12:37 PM
November 21, 2008
NVivo News from QSR International
Classifying your material in NVivo 8
NVivo 8 has more ways to code than any other QDA software. Take this free tutorial to find out about the different ways you can classify your material into themes and topics.
> Play tutorial
Capturing your ideas in NVivo
Want to learn how to use annotations, memos, links, relationships and sets to capture your ideas and link your NVivo 8 materials?
> Take this free tutorial now
NVivo 8 Service Pack 3 released today
Service Pack 3 offers a wide range of enhancements including new 'tag clouds' that allow you to visualize the most frequently occuring words in your project.
> Read more
Other news, events, and advice:
Read more about NVivo 8 in Chinese, Spanish or Japanese
Access online support by searching our knowledgebase
Download the new NVivo 8 Teachers' Handbook
Find a training workshop near you
Posted by yan at 03:19 PM
November 20, 2008
Stata Bookstore: The Workflow of Data Analysis Using Stata
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Comment from the Stata technical group
The Workflow of Data Analysis Using Stata, by J. Scott Long, is a productivity tool for data analysts. Long guides you toward streamlining your workflow, because a good workflow is essential for replicating your work, and replication is essential for good science.
A workflow of data analysis is a process for managing all aspects of data analysis. Planning, documenting, and organizing your work; cleaning the data; creating, renaming, and verifying variables; performing and presenting statistical analyses; producing replicable results; and archiving what you have done are all integral parts of your workflow. Long shows how to design and implement efficient workflows for both one-person projects and team projects.
An efficient workflow reduces the time you spend doing data management and lets you produce datasets that are easier to analyze. When you methodically clean your data and carefully choose names and effective labels for your variables, the time you spend doing statistical and graphical analyses will be more productive and more enjoyable.
After introducing workflows and explaining how a better workflow can make it easier to work with data, Long describes planning, organizing, and documenting your work. He then introduces how to write and debug Stata do-files and how to use local and global macros. Long presents conventions that greatly simplify data analysis—conventions for naming, labeling, documenting, and verifying variables. He also covers cleaning, analyzing, and protecting your data.
While describing effective workflows, Long also introduces the concepts of basic data management using Stata and writing Stata do-files. Using real-world examples, Stata commands, and Stata scripts, Long illustrates effective techniques for managing your data and analyses. If you analyze data, this book is recommended for you.
For more details and table of content of the book, go to Stata website:
http://www.stata.com/bookstore/wdaus.html
Posted by yan at 02:24 PM
November 19, 2008
Recent ICPSR updates and additions - New Releases through 2008-11-17
Below is a list of new data collection additions to the ICPSR data archive
along with a list of released data collections that have been updated:
New Additions
22404 Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States]: Arrests by Age,
Sex, and Race, 2006
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR22404
23024 American Time Use Survey (ATUS), 2006
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR23024
23240 National Impact Study: Best Practice Physical Activity Programs for
Older Adults, 2004-2006
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR23240
23444 CBS News/New York Times Monthly Poll, May 2007
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR23444
23600 Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States]: Hate Crime Data,
2003 [Record-Type Files]
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR23600
23625 Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States]: Hate Crime Data,
2002 [Record-Type Files]
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR23625
23781 Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States]: Hate Crime Data,
2001 [Record-Type Files]
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR23781
23783 Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States]: Hate Crime Data,
2000 [Record-Type Files]
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR23783
Updates
6512 Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-1993
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06512
6513 Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-1992
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06513
6514 Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-1991
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06514
6691 Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-1994
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06691
6799 Multiple Cause of Death, 1993
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06799
6956 Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-1995
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06956
8328 National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle III, 1982
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08328
9210 Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-1987
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09210
9337 Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-1988
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09337
9507 Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-1989
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09507
9819 Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-1990
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09819
You can also view a list of all studies added and updated in the last ninety
days by visiting the ICPSR Web site at
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/access/recent.html.
Posted by ronbo at 04:40 PM
MAPSS Presents Sophia Rabe-Hesketh this Thursday (w/ Handout)
MAPSS continues our quarter on Hierchical Modeling with University of California Professor Sophia Rabe-Hesketh, who will talk about discrete choices in hierarchical models. Please take a quick look at her handout: http://www.stanford.edu/group/mapss/colloquium/papers/stanford4.pdf.
Pizza will be served outside Building 320 (Geology) Room 105 at 11:45AM, talk starts at 12:00PM. (RSVP for food at http://www.stanford.edu/group/mapss/colloquium/rsvp_signup.html)
Thursday, November 20th
12:00 PM
Building 320 (Geology) - Room 105
Multilevel Modelig of Categorical Data
Binary, ordinal, and nominal (or discrete choice) data can be analyzed using different types of logistic regression models. When the data have a multilevel structure, for instance with students nested in classes nested in schools, these models can be extended by including class-level and school-level random effects. I will describe the models and show how they can be estimated using Stata's xtmelogit command and my own command gllamm.I will also discuss how to obtain different types of predicted probabilities for these models using the prediction command for gllamm. http://www.stanford.edu/group/mapss/colloquium/papers/stanford4.pdf.
Sophia Rabe-Hesketh is professor of educational statistics and biostatistics at the University of California, Berkeley and chair of social statistics at the Institute of Education, University of London. Her research interests include hierarchical/multilevel models, item response theory, structural equation models, and generalized latent variable models. She has developed a model framework, "Generalized Linear Latent and Mixed Models", that unifies and extends these models, allowing, for instance, inclusion of measurement models within multilevel regression models. Rabe-Hesketh has co-authored five books on statistics, including "Generalized Latent Variable Modeling: Multilevel, Longitudinal, and Structural Equation Models" and papers in a wide range of methodological journals, including Psychometrika, Biometrics, and Journal of Econometrics. She is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.
MAPSS is an interdisciplinary methodology program designed to expose researchers to diverse modes of data collection and analysis from across the social sciences. MAPSS offers a colloquium series, a workshop, a graduate certificate program, and various research resources. If you would like to learn more about the Methods of Analysis Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS), please check out our website at mapss.stanford.edu.
All members of the Stanford community are invited to attend and to RSVP in advance to reserve food.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/mapss/colloquium/rsvp_signup.html.
Lunch will be served at 11:45 for those who have RSVP'd; the talks start at 12:00.
For more information, please contact mapss-info@lists.stanford.edu.
Posted by ronbo at 04:32 PM
November 14, 2008
Census Update - Fact of the Day: Holiday Rush
November 14, 2008 (see original)
$30.5 billion - - Retail sales by the nation's department stores (including leased departments) in December 2007. This represented a 42 percent jump from the previous month (when retail sales, many holiday-related, registered $21.5 billion). No other month-to-month increase in department store sales last year was as large.
Other U.S. retailers with sizable jumps in sales between November and December 2007 were book stores (78 percent); clothing stores (37 percent); jewelry stores (137 percent); radio, TV and other electronics stores (46 percent); and sporting goods stores (53 percent). Find this information and more at the Service Sector Statistics webpage.
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Posted by ronbo at 07:17 PM
Census Update - Hot Tip: New Series of American Community Survey Handbooks!
November 14, 2008 (see original)
The Census Bureau has worked closely with a group of experts to develop a series of handbooks, each of which is designed to instruct and provide guidance regarding the American Community Survey to particular audiences. The series is called, A Compass for Understanding and Using American Community Survey Data. Series titles are listed below and began release in October 2008, to be continued on a flow-basis.
* What General Data Users Need to Know [PDF 1.7MB]
* What the Business Community Needs to Know [PDF 1.4MB]
* What High School Teachers Need to Know
* What the Media Needs to Know
* What Congress Needs to Know
* What State and Local Governments Need to Know
* What Federal Agencies Need to Know
* What Researchers Need to Know
* What Users of Data for Rural Areas Need to Know
* What Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) Data Users Need to Know
* What Users of Data for American Indian and Alaska Native Populations Need to Know
* What Users of Data from the Puerto Rico Community Survey Need to Know (in Spanish)
[PDF] denotes a file in Adobe’s Portable Document Format. To view the file, you will need the Adobe® Acrobat® Reader This link to a non-federal Web site does not imply endorsement of any particular product, company, or content. available free from Adobe.
Posted by ronbo at 07:09 PM
November 12, 2008
Data Analysis Using Stata, 2nd Edition
Updated to include changes to Stata over the past several years, Data Analysis Using Stata, Second Edition comprehensively introduces Stata and will be useful to those who are just learning statistics and Stata, as well as to users of other statistical packages who are making the switch to Stata. Throughout the book, Kohler and Kreuter show examples using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel, a large survey of households containing demographic, income, employment, and other key information. The authors describe the Graph Editor and time-of-day variables, two features added in Stata 10, in this new edition.
Kohler and Kreuter’s book is a valuable introduction to Stata. The authors take a hands-on approach, leading you step by step through actual Stata sessions to answer practical questions commonly asked by social scientists.
They begin with an introduction to the Stata interface and then proceed with a description of Stata syntax and simple programming tools like foreach loops. The core of the book includes chapters on producing tables and graphs, performing linear regression, and using logistic regression. Kohler and Kreuter use multiple examples to illustrate all key concepts.
The rest of the book includes chapters on reading text files, writing programs and ado-files, and using Internet resources, such as the search command and the SSC archive.
For further details or to order online, please visit the Stata Bookstore.
Posted by yan at 04:09 PM
Stata news: Statistics with Stata (Updated for Version 10)
Statistics with Stata (Updated for Version 10) is the latest edition in Professor Lawrence C. Hamilton’s popular Statistics with Stata series. Intended to bridge the gap between statistical texts and Stata’s own documentation, Statistics with Stata demonstrates how to use Stata to perform a variety of tasks. This text is ideal as a self-study course for those new to statistics or those migrating from other statistical software to Stata and as a valuable reference for experienced Stata users wishing to explore Stata’s capabilities in fields new to them.
Hamilton covers topics including getting started in Stata, data manipulation, graphics, summary statistics and tables, ANOVA, linear regression (and diagnostics), curve fitting, robust methods, regression models for limited dependent variables, panel (longitudinal) data and mixed models, survey data, survival analysis, factor analysis, cluster analysis, time series, and an introduction to programming.
Notable changes to Statistics with Stata (Updated for Version 10) include a new chapter on survey data analysis using Stata’s svy: prefix command and a chapter on the multilevel and mixed model commands introduced in Stata 10. Chapter 3, covering graphics, has been updated to include a section demonstrating Stata’s Graph Editor. The entire book has also been updated to reflect changes in output, syntax, and features.
For further details or to order online, please visit the Stata Bookstore.
Posted by yan at 04:08 PM
November 11, 2008
MAPSS Student Presentation: Elise Paradis - Gender at the Boxing Gym
Elise Paradis, a PhD Student studying the Sociology of Education will be giving a student presentation called "Talking Weight, Doing Gender: The Boxing Gym as Microcosm."
Pizza will be served outside Building 320 (Geology) Room 105 at 11:45AM, talk starts at 12:00PM. (RSVP for food at http://www.stanford.edu/group/mapss/colloquium/rsvp_signup.html)
Thursday, November 13th
12:00 PM
Building 320 (Geology) - Room 105
Talking Weight, Doing Gender: The Boxing Gym as Microcosm
Elise Paradis is a third-year Ph.D. student in sociology of education. She graduated from the University of Toronto in 2006 with a Honors B.A. in Math and in History of Science and Technology. She is the recipient of a TD Canada Trust Scholarship for Community Involvement (2002), of a Government of Canada Millennium Scholarship (2002), of the Lieutenant-Governor Medal (2002), and of a four-year doctoral fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2006). Her dissertation will evaluate the impacts of the harmonization of higher education in Europe (the Bologna Process) on women in science, in the hopes to integrate ideas from the social psychology of gender to neo-institutional theory.
MAPSS is an interdisciplinary methodology program designed to expose researchers to diverse modes of data collection and analysis from across the social sciences. MAPSS offers a colloquium series, a workshop, a graduate certificate program, and various research resources. If you would like to learn more about the Methods of Analysis Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS), please check out our website at mapss.stanford.edu.
All members of the Stanford community are invited to attend and to RSVP in advance to reserve food.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/mapss/colloquium/rsvp_signup.html.
Lunch will be served at 11:45 for those who have RSVP'd; the talks start at 12:00.
For more information, please contact mapss-info@lists.stanford.edu.
Posted by ronbo at 03:28 PM
November 10, 2008
Recent ICPSR updates and additions - New Releases through 2008-11-09
Below is a list of new data collection additions to the ICPSR data archive
along with a list of released data collections that have been updated:
New Additions
20401 Performance Measures in Prosecution and Their Application to Community
Prosecution at Two Sites in the United States, 2005-2006
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20401
22406 Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States]: Hate Crime Data,
2006 [Record-Type Files]
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR22406
23441 Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States]: Hate Crime Data,
2005 [Record-Type Files]
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR23441
23442 CBS News Monthly Poll, April 2007
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR23442
23544 Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States]: Hate Crime Data,
2004 [Record-Type Files]
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR23544
Updates
2259 National Incident-Based Reporting System, 1995
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02259
2465 National Incident-Based Reporting System, 1996
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02465
6546 Multiple Cause of Death, 1992
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06546
You can also view a list of all studies added and updated in the last ninety
days by visiting the ICPSR Web site at
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/access/recent.html.
Posted by ronbo at 07:40 PM
November 05, 2008
From IES Newsflash: NCSER Training for Opportunities: Using the PEELS and NLTS2 Databases for Research and Policy Discussion
Two three-day seminars on the use of longitudinal datasets for education research and policy analysis will be held January 13-15, 2009 in Washington D.C. The seminars will focus on the Pre-Elementary Education Longitudinal Study (PEELS) database and the National Longitudinal Transition Study 2 (NLTS2) database. PEELS and NLTS2 study children and youth with disabilities and are administered by the National Center for Special Education Research within the Institute of Education Sciences.
Both seminars are open to advanced graduate students and faculty members from colleges and universities nationwide and to researchers, education practitioners, and policy analysts from federal, state, and local education and human services agencies and professional associations. The application deadline is November 23, 2008.
PEELS
The PEELS includes a sample of over 3,000 children with disabilities and is designed to describe the characteristics of children receiving preschool special education, their educational programs and services, and their transitions from preschool programs to elementary schools. For more information about PEELS, see http://www.peels.org
For more information about the PEELS database training seminar, see http://ies.ed.gov/whatsnew/conferences/?id=378&cid=4
NLTS2
The NLTS2 includes a sample of more than 11,000 students with disabilities and is designed to support research on a wide range of topics pertaining to youth with disabilities as they move from secondary school into adult roles. For more information about NLTS2, see http://www.nlts2.org
For more information about the NLTS2 database training seminar, see
http://ies.ed.gov/whatsnew/conferences/?id=379&cid=4
Posted by ronbo at 02:49 PM
November 03, 2008
Recent ICPSR updates and additions - New Releases through 2008-11-02
Below is a list of new data collection additions to the ICPSR data archive along with a list of released data collections that have been updated:
New Additions
22480 Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of American Youth
(12th-Grade Survey), 2007
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR22480
22500 Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of American Youth (8th- and
10th-Grade Surveys), 2007
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR22500
22880 National Incident-Based Reporting System, 1995: Extract Files
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR22880
22881 National Incident-Based Reporting System, 1996: Extract Files
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR22881
23023 CBS News Monthly Poll, March 2007
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR23023
23140 Study on Aging, 1980
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR23140
23541 National Incident-Based Reporting System, 2006: Extract Files
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR23541
Updates
2691 Services Research Outcomes Study, 1995-1996: [United States]
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02691
2736 Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-1996
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02736
2737 Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-1997
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02737
2977 Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-1998
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02977
3201 Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-1999
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03201
3667 Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-2000
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03667
3947 Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-2001
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03947
3958 Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-2002
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03958
4404 Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-2003
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04404
4540 Investigation and Prosecution of Homicide Cases in the United States,
1995-2000: The Process for Federal Involvement
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04540
6280 ABC News/Washington Post Poll, May 1993
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06280
6320 Multiple Cause of Death, 1991
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06320
6512 Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-1993
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06512
6513 Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-1992
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06513
6514 Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-1991
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06514
6691 Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-1994
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06691
6852 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, 1993
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06852
6949 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, 1994
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06949
6956 Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-1995
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06956
8181 National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle II, 1976: Interval File
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08181
8893 ABC News/Washington Post Poindexter Testimony Poll #2, July 1987
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08893
8923 ABC News/Washington Post Post-Summit Poll, December 1987
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08923
8999 ABC News/Washington Post Pre-Election Tracking Poll: Illinois, 1988
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08999
9059 ABC News/Washington Post Pre-Election Tracking Poll: New York, 1988
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09059
9210 Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-1987
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09210
9337 Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-1988
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09337
9819 Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-1990
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09819
9940 ABC News/Washington Post Race Relations Poll, May 1992
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09940
21600 National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health),
1994-2002
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR21600
You can also view a list of all studies added and updated in the last ninety days by visiting the ICPSR Web site at
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/access/recent.html.
Posted by ronbo at 02:21 PM
November 01, 2008
MAPSS Talk: Matthew Harding - Bayesian HLM
MAPSS continues our quarter on Hierchical Modeling with Stanford Economics Professor Matthew Harding, who will talk about some Bayesian HLM techniques.
Pizza will be served outside Building 320 (Geology) Room 105 at 11:45AM, talk starts at 12:00PM. (RSVP for food at http://www.stanford.edu/group/mapss/colloquium/rsvp_signup.html)
Thursday, November 6th
12:00 PM
Building 320 (Geology) - Room 105
Bayesian Nonparametric Approaches to Unobserved Heterogeneity in Nonlinear Models
The talk is based on some of my recent work. It introduces recent advances in Bayesian nonparametrics using the Dirichlet Process model. It discusses how this approach can be used to control for unobserved individual level heterogeneity of unknown functional form. It introduces MCMC estimation techniques for non-conjugate latent class sampling. Examples include multinomial choice models, dynamic probit, duration models and stochastic volatility models for high-frequency finance.
Matthew Harding is currently an Assistant Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He holds a PhD in Economics from MIT. Matthew Harding was also awarded an M.Phil. in Economics from Oxford University and a B.A. in Economics and Philosophy from University College London and was also a research associate at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. His research focuses on theoretical and empirical econometric issues arising from the analysis of very large datasets such as scanner data, large social networks and financial data. His most recent work on the estimation of latent consumer preferences in discrete choice models was published in the Journal of Econometrics and the International Economic Review.
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