I’d like to let members of PolMeth know that there are still seats
available in the following ICPSR Summer Program short workshops:
Strategies for Reproducible Results
Dates and Location: August 1 – 4, 2016 in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Instructor: J. Scott Long, Indiana University
This workshop will show participants how to plan, organize, document, and
execute sophisticated quantitative analyses that are reproducible by other
researchers. Increasingly, journals require authors to deposit datasets
and script files that produce the findings from their paper; these changes,
while beneficial to the scientific enterprise, place new demands on
authors. Topics covered in the workshop include metadata documentation,
writing robust script files that allow results to be replicated, methods
for organizing and preserving files, efficient ways to document research,
and how to maintain the provenance of statistical results.
Regression Discontinuity Designs
Dates and Location: July 18 – 20, 2016 in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Instructor: Rocio Titiunik, University of Michigan
This workshop introduces the basic principles of the Regression
Discontinuity (RD) design and discusses recent methodological developments
in the interpretation and analysis of this quasi-experimental design. The
course introduces the parameters of interest in RD designs and focuses on
different methods to perform statistical inference, including flexible
global parametric inference, local-polynomial non-parametric inference, and
local randomization-based inference. When discussing local non-parametric
inference, special attention is given to bandwidth selection methods and
calculation and computation of valid confidence intervals. It also
discusses how to design and implement falsification tests. Additionally,
several extensions to the basic RD design are discussed, including
multi-cutoff and geographic RD designs, Regression Kink designs, and RD
designs with discrete running variables.
To view our full schedule and register, visit icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog
You can contact the ICPSR Summer Program at [log in to unmask] or
(734) 763-7400.
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Stephanie Carpenter
Digital, Social Media, and Education Support Specialist
ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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