Assignment Due Dates |
due date |
description |
weight |
TBA |
problem sets |
60% |
Dec 15, 1:30pm-3:30pm |
final paper presentations |
10% |
Dec 16 |
final paper |
20% |
-- |
participation |
10% |
See fpaper.pdf posted on the Canvas site for more information about
the final paper and presentation.
Reading Availability
Much of the course will refer to journal articles. I plan to follow or refer
to a few chapters in the following books (others also appear below).
- Cameron, A. Colin, and Pravin K. Trivedi. 2005.
Microeconometrics: Methods and Applications.
Cambridge UP.
- Kenneth E. Train. 2003.
Discrete Choice Methods with Simulation.
Cambridge UP.
In the following listing, required reading is preceded by a bullet. Other
items are recommended.
Class meeting and reading schedule
- computing (Aug 30)
- John Chambers. 1999.
Computing with Data: Concepts and Challenges.
The American Statistician 53: (1, Feb.): 73-84.
- Bierlaire, M. 2018.
BIOGEME: A free package for the estimation of discrete choice models,
http://biogeme.epfl.ch/
- OpenBUGS.
http://www.openbugs.net/w/FrontPage
- WinBUGS.
https://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/software/bugs/the-bugs-project-winbugs/
- Bob Carpenter, Andrew Gelman, Matthew D. Hoffman, Daniel Lee, Ben Goodrich,
Michael Betancourt, Marcus Brubaker, Jiqiang Guo, Peter Li, and Allen
Riddell. 2017. Stan: A probabilistic programming language.
Journal of Statistical Software 76(1). DOI 10.18637/jss.v076.i01
(in file v76i01.pdf)
- The Comprehensive R Archive Network. 2019.
https://cran.r-project.org/
- Crawley, Michael R. 2007. The R Book. Wiley.
- Spector, Phil. 2008. Data manipulation with R. Springer.
- Albert, Jim. 2007. Bayesian Computation with R. Springer.
- Chambers, John M. 2008. Software for Data Analysis. Springer.
- Braun, W. John, and Duncan J. Murdoch. 2007.
A First Course in Statistical Programming with R. Cambridge.
- Bierlaire, M. (2018). PandasBiogeme: a short introduction. Technical report
TRANSP-OR 181219. Transport and Mobility Laboratory, ENAC, EPFL.
http://transp-or.epfl.ch/documents/technicalReports/Bier18.pdf
- Plummer, Martyn. 2003.
“JAGS: A Program for Analysis of Bayesian Graphical Models Using Gibbs Sampling,”
Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Distributed Statistical
Computing (DSC 2003), March 20-22, Vienna, Austria. ISSN 1609-395X.
http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/Conferences/DSC-2003/Proceedings/Plummer.pdf
- JAGS.
http://mcmc-jags.sourceforge.net/
- Pemstein, Daniel, Kevin M. Quinn and Andrew D. Martin. 2011.
“The Scythe Statistical Library: An Open Source C++ Library for Statistical
Computation.” Journal of Statistical Software. 42.
DOI 10.18637/jss.v042.i12
- Martin, Andrew D., Kevin M. Quinn, and Jong Hee Park. 2011.
“MCMCpack: Markov Chain Monte Carlo in R.”
Journal of Statistical Software. 42. DOI 10.18637/jss.v042.i09
- maximum likelihood and numerical optimization (Sep 6)
- A. Colin Cameron and Pravin K. Trivedi. 2005.
Microeconometrics: Methods and Applications. Cambridge. Chapter 5.
(in file CT5.pdf)
- Walter R. Mebane, Jr., and Jasjeet Sekhon. 2011.
“Genetic Optimization Using Derivatives: The rgenoud Package for R.”
Journal of Statistical Software 42(11).
https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v042i11
- Walter R. Mebane, Jr. 1999.
“Congressional Campaign Contributions, District Service and
Electoral Outcomes in the United States: Statistical Tests of a
Formal Game Model with Nonlinear Dynamics” in
Diana Richards, ed., Political Complexity: Nonlinear Models of Politics.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
(in file ghopf.pdf)
- Mebane, Walter R., Jr. 2000. “Coordination, Moderation, and
Institutional Balancing in American Presidential and House Elections.”
American Political Science Review 94 (March): 37-57.
MS version available at
http://www.umich.edu/~wmebane/covote.pdf
- Philip E. Gill , Walter Murray and Margaret H. Wright. 1982.
Practical Optimization.
Classics in Applied Mathematics edition (2019).
https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611975604
- Stefan Theussl, Florian Schwendinger, Hans W. Borchers. 2021.
“CRAN Task View: Optimization and Mathematical Programming.”
https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Optimization.html
- generalized linear models and QMLE (Sep 13)
- John E. Jackson. 1983. “Election Night Reporting and Voter Turnout.”
American Journal of Political Science 27(4): 615-635.
- McCullagh, Peter. 1983. Quasi-likelihood Functions.
Annals of Statistics 11 (Mar.): 59-67.
- Leonard A. Stefanski and Dennis D. Boos, 2002.
The Calculus of M-Estimation.
The American Statistician 56 (1, Feb.): 29-38.
- White, Halbert. 1982.
Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Misspecified Models.
Econometrica 50 (1): 1-25.
- D. A. Freedman. 2006.
On the so-called “Huber Sandwich Estimator” and “robust” standard errors.
The American Statistician 60: 299-302.
- Peter McCullagh and John A. Nelder. 1989.
Generalized Linear Models. 2d ed. Chapman and Hall.
- O. E. Barndorff-Nielsen. 1995.
“Quasi Profile and Directed Likelihoods From Estimating Functions.”
Ann. Inst. Statist. Math. 47(3), 461-464.
https://www.ism.ac.jp/editsec/aism/pdf/047_3_0461.pdf
- S. A. Murphy and A. W. van der Vaart. 2000.
“On Profile Likelihood.”
Journal of the American Statistical Association
95 (450 Jun)), 449-465.
(in file Murphy.Vaart.JASA2000.2669386.pdf)
- asymptotics, bootstrap and refinements (Sep 20)
- Bradley Efron. 1987.
“Better Bootstrap Confidence Intervals (and discussion)”
Journal of the American Statistical Association 82 (397): 171-200.
(in file efron.jasa1987.pdf and nine other similarly named files)
- Gary W. Oehlert. 1992.
A Note on the Delta Method.
The American Statistician 46 (1, Feb.): 27-29.
(in file oehlert.amstat1992.pdf)
- Thomas R. Fears, Jacques Benichou, Mitchell H. Gail. 1996.
A Reminder of the Fallibility of the Wald Statistic.
The American Statistician 50 (3, Aug.): 226-227.
(in file fears.benichou.gail.amstat1996.pdf)
- Yudi Pawitan. 2000.
A Reminder of the Fallibility of the Wald Statistic: Likelihood Explanation.
The American Statistician 54 (1, Feb.): 54-56.
(in file pawitan.amstat2000.pdf)
- Dennis D. Boos and Jacqueline M. Hughes-Oliver. 2000.
How Large Does Have to be for and Intervals?
The American Statistician 54 (2, May): 121-128.
(in file boos.hughesoliver.amstat2000.pdf)
- J. Scott Long and Laurie H. Ervin. 2000.
Using Heteroscedasticity Consistent Standard Errors in the Linear Regression Model.
The American Statistician 54 (3, Aug.): 217-224.
(in file long.ervin.amstat2000.pdf)
- John E. Jackson. 2019.
“Corrected Standard Errors with Clustered Data.”
Political Analysis, 28 (3, July): 318-339.
(in file cese_PA_final.pdf)
- Bradley Efron. 1979.
“Bootstrap Methods: Another Look at the Jackknife,”
Annals of Statistics 7 (1): 1-26.
(in file efron.aos1979.pdf)
- Barndorff-Nielsen, O. E., and D. R. Cox. 1984.
“Bartlett Adjustments to the Likelihood Ratio Statistic and the Distribution
of the Maximum Likelihood Estimator,”
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Methodological)
46 (3): 483-495.
- A.C. Davison and D.V. Hinkley. 1997.
Bootstrap Methods and their Applications. Cambridge.
- Steven J. Sepanski. 1994.
“Asymptotic for Multivariate -Statistic and Hotelling's -Statistic
under Infinite Second Moments via Bootstrapping,”
Journal of Multivariate Analysis 49 (1): 41-54.
- Cameron and Trivedi. Chapters 5, 11 and Appendix A.
- Jeffrey M. Wooldridge. 2002.
Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data. MIT Press.
Chapters 3, 12-14.
- Russell Davidson and James G. MacKinnon. 1993.
Estimation and Inference in Econometrics. Oxford UP.
Chapters 4, 8-9.
- Diogo Ferrari and John E. Jackson. 2019.
“ceser R Package: Cluster Estimated Standard Error in R.”
Journal of Statistical Software.
(in file ceser.pdf)
- text as data (Sep 27)
- Burt L. Monroe, Michael P. Colaresi and Kevin M. Quinn. 2008.
“Fightin' Words: Lexical Feature Selection and Evaluation for Identifying
the Content of Political Conflict.” Political Analysis 16: 372-403. (in file
fightin_words_lexical_feature_selection_and_.pdf)
- Justin Grimmer. 2010.
A Bayesian Hierarchical Topic Model for Political Texts: Measuring Expressed
Agendas in Senate Press Releases.
Political Analysis 18 (No. 1, Winter): 1-35.
(in file
bayesian_hierarchical_topic_model_for_political_texts_measuring
_expressed_agendas_in_senate_press_releases.pdf)
- Justin Grimmer and Brandon M. Stewart. 2013. “Text as Data: The
Promise and Pitfalls of Automatic Content Analysis Methods for Political
Texts.” Political Analysis 21: 267-297. (in file
text_as_data_the_promise_and_pitfalls_.pdf)
- Margaret E. Roberts, Brandon M. Stewart, Dustin Tingley and Edoardo
M. Airoldi. 2013. “The Structural Topic Model and Applied Social
Science.” NIPS 2013 Workshop on Topic Models: Computation, Application,
and Evaluation. (in file stmnips2013.pdf)
- Patrick Y. Wu, Walter R. Mebane, Jr., Joseph Klaver, Logan Woods and Preston
Due. 2019. “Partisan Associations of Twitter Users Based on Their
Self-descriptions and Word Embeddings.” Presented at APSA 2019.
(updated version in file wepa.pdf)
- Matthew J. Denny and Arthur Spirling. 2018.
“Text Preprocessing For Unsupervised Learning: Why It Matters, When It
Misleads, And What To Do About It.”
Political Analysis 26: 168-189.
(in file text_preprocessing_for_unsupervised_learning.pdf)
- David M. Blei, Andrew Y. Ng and Michael I. Jordan. 2003.
Latent Dirichlet allocation.
Journal of Machine Learning Research 3 (Jan.): 993-1022.
http://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume3/blei03a/blei03a.pdf
- David M. Blei, Jon D. McAuliffe. 2007.
Supervised topic models.
Neural Information Processing Systems 21.
https://papers.nips.cc/paper/3328-supervised-topic-models.pdf
- Walter R. Mebane, Jr., Patrick Y. Wu, Logan Woods, Alejandro Pineda, Blake
Miller, Joseph Klaver, Preston Due and Adam Rauh. 2020.
“Diverse Election Experiences Reported without Bias:
Observing Election Incidents in the United States via Twitter.”
(in file TEO.pdf)
- prediction, machine learning, LASSO, regularization (Oct 4)
- Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani and Jerome Friedman. 2009.
The Elements of Statistical Learning. Springer.
Chapters 2, 5, 7 and 11.
(in files ESL2.pdf, ESL5.pdf, ESL7.pdf and
ESL11.pdf)
- Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani and Martin Wainwright. 2015.
Statistical Learning with Sparsity: The Lasso and Generalizations.
CRC Press. Chapters 2, 3 and 11.
(in files SLS2.pdf, SLS3.pdf and SLS11.pdf)
- Blake Miller, Fridolin Linder and Walter R. Mebane, Jr. 2020.
“Active Learning Approaches for Labeling Text:
Review and Assessment of the Performance of Active Learning
Approaches.”
Political Analysis, 28 (4, October): 532-551. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/pan.2020.4(in file
active_learning_approaches_for_labeling_text_review_and_assessment_of_the_performance_of_active_learning_approaches.pdf)
- choice models (Oct 11)
- Daniel McFadden and Kenneth Train. 2000.
Mixed MNL Models for Discrete Response.
Journal of Applied Econometrics 15 (5, Sep-Oct): 447-470.
(in file mcfadden.train.japplecon2000.pdf)
- Kenneth E. Train. 2009.
Discrete Choice Methods with Simulation. 2d ed.
Cambridge UP.
http://elsa.berkeley.edu/books/choice2.html
- John E. Jackson, Bogdan W. Mach and Radoslaw Markowski. 2010.
“Party Strategies and Electoral Competition in Post-Communist Countries:
Evidence from Poland.”
Electoral Studies 29 (2): 199-209.
(in file jackson.mach.markowski.elecstud2010.pdf)
- John E. Jackson, Bogdan W. Mach and Radoslaw Markowski. 2010.
“Party Strategies and Electoral Competition in Post-Communist Countries:
Evidence from Poland. Appendix A: Methodological Appendix.”
(in file jelsmethapp.docx)
- Walter R. Mebane, Jr., John E. Jackson and Jonathan Wall. 2015.
“Choice Function Heterogeneities in Models of Electoral Behavior.”
Working paper (in file mw14.pdf).
- Garrett Glasgow. 2001.
Mixed Logit Models for Multiparty Elections.
Political Analysis 9 (1): 116-136.
(in file glasgow.pa2001.pdf)
- Hensher, David A., and William H. Greene. 2003.
The mixed logit model: the state of practice.
Transportation 30 (2): 133-176.
- McFadden, Daniel. 1974.
“Conditional logit analysis of qualitative choice behavior.”
In P Zarembka, ed.,
Frontiers of Econometrics, New York: Acadmic Press. pages
105-142.
http://emlab.berkeley.edu/reprints/mcfadden/zarembka.pdf
- McFadden, Danel. 1981.
“Structural Discrete Probability Models Derived from
Theories of Choice.” In Charles F. Manski and Daniel L. McFadden, eds,
Structural
Analysis of Discrete Data and Econometric Applications, Cambidge, MA: MIT Press,
chapter 5, pp. 198-272.
http://emlab.berkeley.edu/discrete/ch5.pdf
- Mauricio Sarrias and Ricardo A. Daziano. 2017.
“Multinomial Logit Models with Continuous and Discrete Individual
Heterogeneity in R: The gmnl Package.”
Journal of Statistical Software 79 (2). doi: 10.18637/jss.v079.i02
- observational studies, RD and causal inference (Oct 25)
- Angrist, Joshua D., Guido Imbens and Donald B. Rubin. 1996.
“Identification of Causal Effects Using Instrumental Variables.”
Journal of the American Statistical Association 91(June): 444-455.
(in file angrist.imbens.rubin.jasa1996.pdf)
- Holland, Paul. 1986,
“Statistics and Causal Inference.”
Journal of the American Statistical Association 81: 945-961.
(in file holland.jasa1986.pdf)
- Lee, D. S. 2008. “Randomized Experiments from Non-random Selection in U.S. House Elections.”
Journal of Econometrics 142:675–-697.
(in file lee.jeconometrics2008.pdf)
- Jasjeet Sekhon and Rocio Titiunik. 2017. “On Interpreting the Regression
Discontinuity Design as a Local Experiment.”
Regression Discontinuity Designs (Advances in Econometrics,
Vol. 38). Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 1-28.
https://doi.org/10.1108/S0731-905320170000038001 .
(in file SekhonTitiunik-RD-2016.pdf)
- Sebastian Calonico, Matias D. Cattaneo and Rocio Titiunik. 2014.
“Robust Nonparametric Confidence Intervals for Regression-Discontinuity
Designs.” Econometrica 82(6):2295-2326.
(in file Calonico-Cattaneo-Titiunik_2014_ECMA.pdf)
- Sebastian Calonico, Matias D. Cattaneo and Rocio Titiunik. 2015.
“Optimal Data-Driven Regression Discontinuity Plots.”
Journal of the American Statistical Association 110(512):1753-1769.
(in file Calonico-Cattaneo-Titiunik_2016_JASA.pdf)
- Paul R. Rosenbaum. 2002. Observational Studies. Springer.
- Paul R. Rosenbaum. 2009. Design of Observational Studies. Springer.
- Judea Pearl. 2009.
Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference, 2d ed. Cambridge.
- Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke. 2009.
Mostly Harmless Econometrics. Princeton.
- Dunning, Thad. 2012.
Natural Experiments in the Social Sciences: A Design-Based Approach
(Strategies for Social Inquiry). Cambridge.
- Gerber, Alan S., and Donald P. Green. 2012.
Field Experiments: Design, Analysis, and Interpretation.
Norton.
- causal identification norms, DAGs, interference (Nov 1)
- Thomas J. Rothenberg. 1971.
Identification in Parametric Models.
Econometrica 39 (May): 577-591.
- Judea Pearl. 1995.
Causal Diagrams for Empirical Research.
Biometrika 82 (4, Dec.): 669-688. (plus discussion, 688-710).
- Egami, Naoki and Imai, Kosuke, 2019. “Causal interaction in factorial experiments:
Application to conjoint analysis.” Journal of the American
Statistical Association 114 (526), 529-540.
- Aronow, Peter M. and Samii, Cyrus, 2017. “Estimating average causal effects under
general interference, with application to a social network experiment.”
The Annals of Applied Statistics 11 (4), 1912-1947.
- Hainmueller, Jens, Hopkins, Daniel J. and Yamamoto, Teppei, 2014. “Causal inference in
conjoint analysis: Understanding multidimensional choices via stated
preference experiments.” Political Analysis 22 (1), 1-30.
- Graeme Blair, Jasper Cooper, Alexander Coppock and Macartan Humphreys. 2019.
“Declaring and Diagnosing Research Designs.”
American Political Science Review 113 (3): 838-859.
- Roger Bowden. 1973.
The Theory of Parametric Identification.
Econometrica 41 (Nov): 1069-1074.
- Franklin Fisher. 1976.
The Identification Problem in Econometrics. Krieger.
- Roger Bowden and Darrell Turlington. 1984.
Instrumental Variables. Cambridge UP.
- Judea Pearl. 2009.
Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference, 2d ed. Cambridge UP.
Chapters 1-5.
- James M. Robins. 1999.
Association, Causation, and Marginal Structural Models.
Synthese 121: 151-179.
- David A. Freedman and Jasjeet S. Sekhon. 2010.
Endogeneity in Probit Response Models.
Political Analysis 18 (2): 138-150.
- James J. Heckman and Edward Vytlacil. 2005.
Structural Equations, Treatment Effects, and Econometric Policy Evaluation.
Econometrica 73 (3, May): 669-738.
- Heckman, J. J. 1978. Dummy endogenous variables in a simultaneous equation system.
Econometrica 46: 931-959.
- Heckman, J. J. 1979. Sample selection bias as a specification error.
Econometrica 47: 153-161.
- hierarchical models, MCMC (Nov 8)
- Simon Jackman. 2009.
Bayesian Analysis for the Social Sciences. Wiley. Chapter 7.
- Andrew Gelman, John B. Carlin, Hal S. Stern and Donald B. Rubin. 2004.
Bayesian Data Analysis, 2d ed. Chapman & Hall. Chapter 5.
(Chapters 1-4 are probably necessary preparation.)
- Andrew Gelman and Jennifer Hill. 2007.
Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models.
Cambridge. Pages 109-117 251-265, 345-359, 366-371, 419-421.
- Brooks, S. P. 1998. Markov chain Monte Carlo method and its application.
The Statistician 47: 69-100.
(in file brooks.statistician1998.pdf)
- Brooks, S. P. and A. Gelman. 1998. Alternative methods for monitoring
convergence of iterative simulations.
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 7: 434-455.
(in file brooks.gelman.jcgs1998.pdf)
- Spiegelhalter, D. J., N. G. Best, B. P. Carlin and A. van der Linde. 2002.
Bayesian measures of model complexity and fit (with discussion).
J. Roy. Statist. Soc. B 64: 583-640.
(in file spiegelhalter.jrssb2002.pdf)
- George Casella and Edward I. George. 1992.
Explaining the Gibbs Sampler
The American Statistician 46 (3, Aug.): 167-174.
- Siddhartha Chib and Edward Greenberg. 1995.
Understanding the Metropolis-Hastings Algorithm
The American Statistician 49 (4, Nov.): 327-335.
- Jeff Gill. 2002.
Bayesian Methods: A Social and Behavioral Approach. Chapman &
Hall.
- latent variable models (Nov 15, 22)
- Simon Jackman and Shawn Treier. 2008.
Democracy as a Latent Variable.
American Journal of Political Science 52 (1): 201-217.
(in file jackman.treir.ajps2008.pdf)
- Joshua Clinton, Simon Jackman and Douglas Rivers. 2004.
The Statistical Analysis of Roll Call Data.
American Political Science Review 98 (2, May): 355-370.
(in file clinton.jackman.rivers.apsr2004.pdf)
- Kevin McAlister. 2020.
Chapter II of “Essays on Latent Variable Models and Roll Call
Scaling” (2020 Ph.D. dissertation)
(in file KevinMcAlisterUMDissFinal.pdf)
- Quinn, Kevin M. 2004. “Bayesian Factor Analysis for Mixed Ordinal and
Continuous Responses.”
Political Analysis 12: 338-353.
(in file quinn.pa2004.pdf)
- Karl G. Jöreskog. 1974. “Analyzing Psychological Data by
Structural Analysis of Covariance Matrices.” In David H. Krantz, Richard
C. Atkinson, R. Duncan Luce and Patrick Suppes, Contemporary
Developments in Mathematical Psychology, Vol. II. W. H. Freeman and Company.
(in file Joreskog1974c.pdf)
- Fariss, Christopher J. 2014.
“Respect for Human Rights has Improved Over Time: Modeling the Changing
Standard of Accountability.”
American Political Science Review 108 (2, May): 297-318.
(in file Fariss2014APSR.pdf)
- Walter R. Mebane, Jr., Diogo Ferrari, Kevin McAlister, and Patrick Y. Wu.
2021. “Measuring Elections Frauds.”
(in file measfrauds.pdf)
- Jian-Qing Shi and Sik-Yum Lee. 2000.
Latent Variable Models with Mixed Continuous and Polytomous Data.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Statistical
Methodology) 62 (1): 77-87.
(in file shi.lee.jrssb2000.pdf)
- Michael A. Bailey. 2007.
Comparable Preference Estimates across Time and Institutions for the
Court, Congress, and Presidency.
American Journal of Political Science 51 (3, Jul.): 433-448.
- Sik-Yum Lee. 2007.
Structural Equation Modelling: A Bayesian Approach. Wiley.
- Sik-Yum Lee, Xin-Yuan Song, John C. K. Lee. 2003.
Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Nonlinear Structural Equation Models with Ignorable
Missing Data.
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics 28 (Summer): 111-134.
- Sik-Yum Lee and Xin-Yuan Song. 2004.
Maximum Likelihood Analysis of a General Latent Variable Model with
Hierarchically Mixed Data.
Biometrics 60 (Sep.): 624-636.
- Sophia Rabe-Hesketh, Anders Skrondal and Andrew Pickles. 2004.
Generalized Latent Variable Modelling: Multilevel, Longitudinal and
Structural Equation Models. Chapman & Hall.
- hypothesis tests and model selection (Nov 29)
- Cameron and Trivedi. Chapter 7. (in file CT7.pdf)
- Benjamin, Daniel J, James O. Berger, et al. 2018.
Redefine Statistical Significance.
Nature Human Behavior 2, 6-10.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0189-z(in file BenjaminEtAlRedefineStatisticalSignificance.pdf)
- Benjamini, Yoav and Yosef Hochberg. 1995.
Controlling the False Discovery Rate: A Practical and Powerful
Approach to Multiple Testing.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B 57 (1): 289-300.
- Benjamini, Yoav and Daniel Yekutieli. 2005.
False Discovery Rate-Adjusted Multiple Confidence Intervals for
Selected Parameters.
Journal of the American Statistical Association 100 (Mar.): 71-81.
- Vuong, Quang H. 1989.
“Likelihood-ratio Tests for Model Selection and Non-nested Hypotheses.”
Econometrica 57 (2): 307-333.
- Imai, Kosuke and Tingley, Dustin, 2012. “A statistical method for empirical
testing of competing theories.” American Journal of Political
Science 56 (1) 218-236.
- Kass, Robert E., and Adrian E. Raftery. 1995. “Bayes factors”
Journal of the American Statistical Association 90 (430) : 773-795.
- Chib, S., 2001. “Markov chain Monte Carlo methods: computation and
inference.” In Handbook of Econometrics (Vol. 5, pp. 3569-3649). Elsevier.
Section 10: MCMC methods in model choice problems.
(in file chib2001.pdf)
- Gelman, A. and Meng, X.L., 1998. “Simulating normalizing constants: From
importance sampling to bridge sampling to path sampling.” Statistical
Science 163-185.
- partial identification and identification with missing covariates (Dec 6)
- Kei Kawai and Yasutora Watanabe. 2013. “Inferring Strategic Voting.”
American Economic Review 103 (2): 624-662.
(in file kawai2013inferring.pdf)
- Joel L. Horowitz and Charles F. Manski. 2000.
Nonparametric Analysis of Randomized Experiments with Missing Covariate and Outcome Data.
Journal of the American Statistical Association
95 (449, Mar): 77-84.
- Rosa L. Matzkin. 2007.
Nonparametric Survey Response Errors.
International Economic Review 48 (4): 1411-1427.
- Charles F. Manski. 1990.
Nonparametric Bounds on Treatment Effects.
American Economic Review
80 (2, Papers and Proceedings): 319-323.
- Francesca Molinari. 2010.
Missing Treatments.
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 28 (1): 82-95.
- Walter R. Mebane, Jr. and Paul Poast. 2013.
“Causal Inference without Ignorability: Identification with Nonrandom
Assignment and Missing Treatment Data.”
Political Analysis 21 (2): 233-251.
- Charles F. Manski. 1995.
Identification in the Social Sciences. Harvard UP.
- Charles F. Manski. 2003.
Partial Identification of Probability Distributions. Springer.
- Rosa L. Matzkin. 2007.
Nonparametric Identification.
In James J. Heckman and Edward E. Leamer, eds.,
Handbook of Econometrics volume 6B. North-Holland.
Pp. 5307-5368.
- Charles F. Manski and Elie Tamer. 2002.
Inference on Regressions with Interval Data on a Regressor or Outcome.
Econometrica
70 (2, Mar): 519-546.
- bounded influence estimation (Dec 6)
- Stefanski, Leonard A., Raymond J. Carroll, David Ruppert. 1986.
Optimally Bounded Score Functions for Generalized Linear Models with Applications
to Logistic Regression.
Biometrika 73 (Aug): 413-424.
- Western, Bruce. 1995.
Concepts and Suggestions for Robust Regression Analysis.
American Journal of Political Science 39 (3): 786-817.
- Mebane, Walter R., Jr., and Jasjeet S. Sekhon. 2004.
Robust Estimation and Outlier Detection for Overdispersed Multinomial
Models of Count Data.
American Journal of Political Science 48 (April): 392-411.
- Mebane, Walter R., Jr. 2010.
Fraud in the 2009 Presidential Election in Iran?
Chance 23 (Mar.): 6-15.
- Hampel, Frank R. and Peter J. Rousseeuw and Elvezio Ronchetti. 1981.
The Change-of-Variance Curve and Optimal Redescending M-Estimators.
Journal of the American Statistical Association 76 (Sep): 643-648.
- Croux, Christophe and Peter J. Rousseeuw and Ola Hossjer. 1994.
Generalized S-Estimators.
Journal of the American Statistical Association 89 (Dec): 1271-1281.
- paper presentations (Dec 14, 1:30pm-3:30pm)