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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 2013. Archives of class material are available from
Fall 1999 and
Spring 2001, when
the class was numbered 17.801, and
Spring 2002,
Spring 2003,
Spring 2006,
Spring 2007,
Spring 2008,
Spring 2009,
Spring 2010,
Spring 2011, and
Spring 2012.
In Spring 2004 and Spring 2005, the class was on Stellar, which means (alas),
it is not generally available to browsers. This class also has an
OCW page.
Syllabus and class schedule
Syllabus
Individual meeting times to discuss individual projects
Edward Tufte. Data Analysis
for Politics and Policy. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1974 (link to online archive of book)
Handouts
Stata handout
Athena Stata on your own computer
Emacs command cheat sheet
Resources for learning Stata
Introduction to Stata exercises (zip file)
Stata starting kit
How to Use the STATA infile and infix commands
How to Use the STATA merge and reshape commands
Data research process
Topics that might be covered in the quiz
2007 quiz
2009 quiz
Assignments
Hard-Nosed Empiricist
Hard-Nosed Empiricist Presentation dates updated
Introduction assignment
Problem Set 1
-Problem set 1 solutions
-Problem set 1 feedback
Group projects
Problem Set 2
-Problem set 2 solutions
Problem Set 3
-Problem set 3 solutions
Problem Set 4
-Problem set 4 solutions
Problem Set 5
-Problem set 5 solutions
Final Projects
Lectures
The following slides were used in lecture.
Introduction
Do Voting Machines Cause Lost Votes (example)?
Introduction to Stata
Understanding, Finding, and Using Data
Descriptive Statistics, I and
II
--Diversion into weighting
Bivariate Regression
Multiple Regression
Inference
Special Topics
Measurement error
Group project feedback
Medical marijuana
Women in legislatures
Foreign Direct Investment
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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
Social Science Data Resources @ the MIT Libraries
Political
Science Data Resources from the Stanford University Library
UC Data
Archive @ Berkeley
Paul Hensel's International Relations Data Site
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
Roper Center iPoll Databank
Statistics of Income Division
(Internal Revenue Service)
U.S. Census
Bureau
U.S. Federal
Election Commission
Political Methodology Section, APSA
Inter-university
Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), the world's largest archive of computer-readable
social science data.
American National Election Studies (ANES), for
information about public opinion studies
Research
Links
MIT
Library
Social Sciences Citation
Index (through the "Web of Knowledge")
Finding Survey
Questions and Results
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