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Subject Information
Links down this column of the page refer to requirements
and assignments for 17.871 in the Spring of 2002. I have also archived
the class material from Fall
1999 and Spring
2001, when the class was numbered 17.801.
Syllabus and class schedule
Syllabus
Appointments to discuss individual projects
Project presentation schedule
Handouts
Examples of previous research topics
Introduction to Stata
How to Use the STATA
infile and infix commands
How to Use the STATA merge and reshape commands
STATA demonstration handout
Printing STATA graphs
on Athena
Mechanical
Engineering data set codebook
Ranking of Political Science Journals
by Evaluation of Journal Quality
Resources
to help you learn STATA from the UCLA Office of Academic Computing.
STATA Corporation Web
Site
Problem sets
Group assignments
Comments on Group II, Improving Registration Procedures (PowerPoint presentation)
Comments on Group III, What Predicts Participation in the Kyoto Protocols? (PowerPoint presentation)
Comments on Group IV, Was Gore Hurt by the Clinton Legacy?" (PowerPoint presentation)
Problem set 1 and solutions.
Problem set 2 and solutions
(graphs D2, C3a,
C3b, C3b-xlog).
Problem set 3 and solutions
(graphs A3, B1,
B1ln, B2,
C1, C1ln).
Problem set 4 and solutions
(C3 graphs: suppfac,
fac_stu, myd,
pub_fac, NEWmyd,
NEWpub_fac, lnfac_stu,
lnpub_fac)
Final assignment
details
Lectures
The following slides were used in lecture. They require Adobe Acobat
to read.
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Data Links
Links down this column of the page refer to various
data sites that have proved useful over the years. I invite
nominations for new sites and information about inactive sites.
Harvard-MIT
Data Center
UC Data Archive @
Berkeley
Washington
Post gateway to government Internet resources.
Richard Tucker's data page. Excellent gateway to data sources,
especially those pertaining to international relations
American Religion Data Archive
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Bureau of
Justice Statistics
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Division
of Science Resources Studies (NSF)
Energy Information Administration
Environmental
Protection Agency
Federal Budget
FEDSTATS (Index
to federal agency statistics on line)
National
Agricultural Statistics Service
National Center for
Education Statistics
National Center
for Health Statistics
Office of Management and Budget
Statistics
of Income Division (Internal Revenue Service)
U.S. Census Bureau
U.S. Federal Election Commission
World
Bank: Social Indicators of Development, 1995
World
Bank: Trends in Developing Economies, 1995
Methodology section,
APSA
Inter-university
Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR),
the world's largest archive of computer-readable social science data.
National Election Study
(NES), for information about public opinion
studies
Political Science
Manuscripts
Political
Science Personal Home pages
Resources
for Political Scientists (Univ. of Colorado)
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