Emory University, Spring 2005
TuTh 1:00p-2:15p, Tarbutton Hall 111

AnnouncementsCourse MaterialsLinks

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Announcements

Course Materials

• Syllabus (also here in HTML format)
• Lecture for Topic # 1: Math Primer I
• Lecture for Topic # 2: Math Primer II
• Lecture for Topic # 3: Math Primer III
• Lecture for Topic # 4: Regression Model (without matrix algebra), with additional lecture material
• Lecture for Topic # 5: Regression Interpretation, with additional lecture material
• Lecture for Topic # 6: Math Primer IV: Matrix Algebra
• Lecture for Topic # 7: Regression Model (with matrix algebra), with additional lecture material, and an extra list of regression assumptions
• Lecture for Topic # 8: Multicollinearity, with additional lecture material
• Lecture for Topic # 9: Heteroscedasticity, with additional lecture material and an example dataset and accompanying Stata program
• Lecture for Topic # 10: Autocorrelation
• Lecture for Topic # 11: Model Specification
• Lecture for Topic # 12: Techniques for Panel Data
• Lecture for Topic # 13: Endogeneity and Measurement Error
• Lecture for Topic # 14: Maximum Likelihood
• Homework # 1
• Homework # 2
• Homework # 3 assignment and dataset
• Homework # 4 assignment and dataset
• Homework # 5
• Homework # 5
• Homework # 7 assignment and dataset
• Homework # 8 assignment and dataset
• Homework # 9 assignment and dataset
• Homework # 10 assignment and dataset
• Purchase Stata through Emory's 'GradPlan' (for home use)
• POLS 509 Grade Scales
• Stata Basics by Prof. Christopher Zorn
• Stata Programming I: basic syntax and operations
• Stata Programming II: getting data into Stata, merging/disaggregating/aggregating data, graphing
• Guidelines for Paper
• Information for Gary King et al.'s CLARIFY add-on to Stata.

Statistical Methods and Data Links

• Political Methodology Section of APSA
• Data used for the examples in Agresti and Finlay
• Stata commands for the examples in Agresti and Finlay
• The Data and Story Library
• Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics
• SticiGui On-Line Statistics Textbook
• Statistical Calculators On-Line
• SurfStat, another on-line statistics tutorial
• ICPSR Publication-Related Archive
• Datavine: cross-national time series datasets
• Poole-Rosenthal NOMINATE Data on U.S. Congressional Roll Call Voting
• World Bank Research Datasets
• World Bank World Development Indicators
• World Bank Database of Political Institutions
• UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics
• National Election Studies (NES)
• General Social Survey (GSS)
• Current Population Survey (CPS)
• Penn World Tables
• Economic Report of the President
• EUGene
• Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index
• World Bank Governance Data
• U.S. Federal Reserve Board Data
• Polity IV Data
• Cross-National Social Indicators of Development
• SourceOECD
• Electronic Data Center at Emory University
• ICPSR
• Fedstats Data Access Tools
• Statistical Abstract of the United States
• UN/WIDER World Income Inequality Database
• Environmental Sustainability Index
• COW 2 Homepage
• USITC Dataweb
• UN COMTRADE Data

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• Email Eric at erein@emory.edu.
• Eric Reinhardt's Home Page
• This page last updated January 2005.