I just wanted to (shamelessly, belatedly) follow on the announcement below from ICPSR Summer Program to underscore that all ICPSR short and 4-week workshops will again this year be offered online/remotely/virtually...which has some advantages for those who may be considering it...and to note that SPACE (ha!) remains in my Spatial-Econometrics Workshop ;). (Please direct any & all questions about the spatial-econometrics workshop to me, Rob, at [log in to unmask] And feel free, encouraged even, to recirculate the below widely throughout your networks.)
Subject: Newly Expanded Spatial Econometrics Workshop in Ann Arbor, 19-30 July 2021, 10a-2p Eastern (VIRTUAL, & recorded for asynchronous (re)viewing)
As just noted, ICPSR is doing all its courses & workshops online/remotely/virtually again this summer, including my Spatial-Econometrics workshop. While I will miss working with this year’s cohort in person, there are some upsides perhaps for scholars who may be considering it. No travel & lodging costs if they’re outside of Ann Arbor, of course, but also the instruction will be delivered online, live and also recorded for asynchronous viewing (to accommodate time-zone variation, e.g.) and therefore also accessible for later reviewing (at least for some period after the workshop ends). And, as always, participants in my workshops will retain access to all materials from the workshop—slides, notes, readings, & labs—and email access to me if I can be of future assistance, in perpetuity. My experience with online teaching of statistical methods in two ICPSR workshops last summer and with undergrads this past Fall semester here at UMich has also revealed, perhaps surprisingly, that teaching statistical methods can work extremely well in this modality. (In fact, I intend to retain most of its features when we return to in-person instruction this Fall here in Ann Arbor.)
NEW & EXPANDED in 2021!* Workshop:
Spatial Econometrics: Empirical Analysis of Geospatial Association and Cross-Unit Interdependence
Robert J. Franzese, Jr. (please direct any & all questions about the workshop to [log in to unmask])
Do the outcomes in the units or individuals of your research analyses cluster geospatially or within networks? Do some units’ or individuals’ outcomes depend on outcomes in other units/individuals? That is, are the outcomes of interest in your studies likely contagious from units to neighboring or otherwise proximate or connected units? Do the processes you study diffuse across units in some manner? Are there spillovers across subjects? If you study anything in the social sciences, and likely most things beyond, almost certainly they are/do.
This NEW & EXPANDED!* workshop (July 19-30, 10a-2p, VIRTUAL & RECORDED) teaches empirical methods for modeling, for estimating, and for the interpretation of such spatial or cross-unit clustering or interdependence (a.k.a., contagion/diffusion/spillover/network-dependence...).
*Now with more intro to models and methods for spatial or geospatial clustering or heterogeneity (as opposed to contagion/interdependence) and distinguishing between the alternate sources of spatial association (common exposure, contagion, network selection).
Applied (computer-lab) sessions and exercises are bilingual, i.e. with lab scripts in Stata and R both available, and students are of course welcome to use other software as they prefer.
Registration for ICPSR Four-Week Sessions and the Short Workshops is now open! You can see the full schedule for the four-week sessions and read about each course in the Four-Week Session portal: https://myumi.ch/r8d08. The Short Workshop portal has information on the dozens of one- to two-week (4hrs/weekday) workshops that focus on a specific topic: https://myumi.ch/2DgeB.
SCHOLARSHIPS & DISCOUNTS: We offer more than 50 fee-waiver scholarships every year, including support for underrepresented students. To see a list of our scholarships and eligibility requirements, please visit our Scholarships page: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/sumprog/scholarships/index.html. Scholarship applications are now open!
Additional DISCOUNTS:
1. Individuals currently affiliated with an ICPSR member institution receive a discount on their registration fees.
2. Discount for Returning ICPSR Summer Program Participants: If you participated in a previous ICPSR Summer Program, you will receive a 15% discount on your registration fee in this year's ICPSR Summer Program. This discount is available to anyone who took either four-week classes or short workshops in any ICPSR Summer Program, last year or earlier. The discount will be applied to the fees for both short workshops and the four-week sessions in the current year's ICPSR Summer Program. You don't have to do anything special to receive the discount. When you register, you will be asked about your previous participation in the ICPSR Summer Program. Upon verification of the information you provide, the discount will be applied to your fees automatically.
Spatial Econometrics: Empirical Analysis of Geospatial Association and Cross-Unit Interdependence
19-30 July 2021, 10am-2pm Eastern, VIRTUAL & RECORDED
PLEASE DO EMAIL ([log in to unmask]) with any & all questions
Full Description: Spatial (i.e., geospatial or otherwise cross-unit) association and interdependence are ubiquitous throughout the social sciences, and beyond. That is, events or outcomes in one observational unit are almost always related to similar occurrences in other observational units. This is so for such diverse phenomena as disturbances and conflicts within and between nations; crime, health, and environmental outcomes; economic and other policies in political jurisdictions; consumer, investor, and producer choices in markets; individuals’ opinions and behavior in societies; and voting by citizens in elections or by legislators in legislatures. In contexts where this omnipresent cross-unit association (or correlation) arises from interdependence (or contagion), "standard" statistical methods (which assume independent observations) are inappropriate, and design-based methods of "nonparametric causal-inference" are (at best) inadequate. This workshop introduces strategies appropriate for identifying and estimating spatial processes, distinguishing spatial association from spatial interdependence, and for proper estimation and interpretation of processes involving interdependent observations, emphasizing spatial and spatiotemporal models of interdependent (contagious) continuous and limited outcomes.
The core aim of the workshop is to demonstrate how such spatial, i.e. geo-spatial or otherwise cross-unit, interdependence can be incorporated into empirical analysis most productively. Participants will learn how to: diagnose spatial-correlation patterns; estimate spatial-regression models; distinguish between different sources of spatial correlation (common exposure, contagion, and selection); and calculate and present the spatial and spatiotemporal effects that empirical models which incorporate interdependence imply. Methods to be covered—from specification and estimation of spatial models to inference and interpretation of spatial effects—include:
• measures and tests of spatial association (Moran’s I, etc.);
• models and methods for (exogenous) spatial correlation and spatial heterogeneity (e.g., geographically weighted regression (GWR), spatial-hierarchical random-component or multi-level models (S-MLM, and spatially lagged regressor (SLX) or error models(SEM));
• instrumental-variable and maximum-likelihood estimators for models with (endogenous) spatial interdependence (spatially lagged dependent-variable models (SAR));
• multiple-source (SLX, SEM, SAR) and multiple-lag (multiple ‘W’) spatial models;
• spatial interdependence in models with limited and qualitative dependent-variables; and
• models for coevolutionary processes (i.e., processes with both spatial-cum-network interdependence and endogenous-connectivity/network-selection).
Prerequisites: None; although participants should be familiar with linear regression and models for qualitative/limited dependent variables (e.g., logit, probit, etc.), this workshop does not assume any prior knowledge of, or experience with, spatial statistics. Indeed, all necessary mathematical, statistical, geospatial-analytic, and spatial-econometric background will be reviewed as needed, albeit (obviously) very quickly.
Best regards,
And again: email any & all questions to
Rob ([log in to unmask])
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Robert (Rob) J. Franzese, Jr.
Professor & Associate Chair, Department of Political Science,
College of Literature, Science, & the Arts (5755 Haven Hall)
Director, Program in International & Comparative Studies,
International Institute (333 Weiser Hall)
Research Professor, Center for Political Studies,
Institute for Social Research (4256 I.S.R.)
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Fellow & 15th (ex)President, The Society for Political Methodology
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phone: 1-734-936-1850 http://www-personal.umich.edu/~franzese
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Subject: [POLMETH] Learn quantitative methods with the ICPSR Summer Program!
From the introductory to the advanced, our courses offer training to 1,000 participants every year, including graduate students and tenured faculty learning (or re-learning) a particular technique. Courses include:
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Registration for the Four-Week Sessions and the Short Workshops is now open! You can see the full schedule for the four-week sessions and read about each course in the Four-Week Session portal: https://myumi.ch/r8d08
Our Short Workshop portal has information on the dozens of one- to two-week workshops that focus on a specific topic: https://myumi.ch/2DgeB
We offer more than 50 fee-waiver scholarships every year, including support for underrepresented students. To see a list of our scholarships and eligibility requirements, please visit our Scholarships page. Scholarship applications are now open! Please have all materials submitted by Monday, March 29.
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