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March 2012

App Stats: Yamamoto on "A Multinomial Response Model for Varying Choice Sets, with Application to Partially Contested Multiparty Elections"

We hope you can join us this Wednesday, March 28, 2012 for the Applied Statistics Workshop. Teppei Yamamoto, Assistant Professor from the Department of Political Science at MIT, will give a presentation entitled "A Multinomial Response Model for Varying Choice Sets, with Application to Partially Contested Multiparty Elections". A light lunch will be served at 12 pm and the talk will begin at 12.15.

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App Stats: Reshef on "Detecting Novel Bivariate Associations in Large Data Sets"

We hope you can join us this Wednesday, March 21, 2012 for the Applied Statistics Workshop. David Reshef, an MD/PhD student at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), will give a presentation entitled "Detecting Novel Bivariate Associations in Large Data Sets". A light lunch will be served at 12 pm and the talk will begin at 12.15.

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Rainfall: not such a great instrument after all...

Every discovery of a plausible instrumental variable sparks a cottage industry of papers all using the same instrument to ask different questions. A working paper by Heather Sarsons, titled "Rainfall and Conflict" calls one of these cottage industries into serious question. From the abstract:

Starting with Miguel, Satyanath, and Sergenti (2004), a large literature has used rainfall variation as an instrument to study the impacts of income shocks on civil war and conflict. These studies argue...
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App Stats: Goodman on "Flaking Out: Snowfall, Disruptions of Instructional Time, and Student Achievement"

We hope you can join us this Wednesday, March 7, 2012 for the Applied Statistics Workshop. Joshua Goodman, Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, will give a presentation entitled "Flaking Out: Snowfall, Disruptions of Instructional Time, and Student Achievement". A light lunch will be served at 12 pm and the talk will begin at 12.15.

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