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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 2010. 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,
and Spring 2009. 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
Edward Tufte. Data Analysis
for Politics and Policy. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall,
1974 (link to online archive of book)
Handouts
Stata
handout
Introduction
to Stata
Resources for learning Stata
Stata starting
kit
How to Use
the STATA infile and infix commands
How to Use the
STATA merge and reshape commands
Assignments
Problem
Set 1
Speed Dating Data | Codebook
Putting Data
Problem
Set 2
Problem
Set 3
Hard-Nosed
Empiricist
Problem
Set 4
Group
Projects
Final
Projects
Lectures
The following slides were used in lecture.
Research Design
Descriptive Statistics
Bivariate Regression
Multiple Regression
Inference
Special Topics
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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
Washington
Post gateway to government Internet resources.
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
Working
Paper Sites of Political Science
Research
Links
MIT
Library
Social Sciences Citation
Index (through the "Web of Science")
Finding
Survey Questions and Results
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