We would appreciate your comments and suggestions on our title and
abstract...
"The Madness Behind the Methods: A Reassessment of Presidential Campaigns
and Electoral College Strategy"
In Daron R. Shaw's frequently cited article, "The Methods behind the
Madness: Presidential Electoral College Strategies, 1988-1996," the author
asserts that presidential candidates rely on predictable factors to
determine electoral strategies that they then adhere to during the course
of their campaigns. We contend that Shaw misrepresents the models he
uses. While he claims to employ two-stage-least-squares (2SLS) and
ordered probit regressions, we conclude that his results are simply
derived from ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions. When we implement
the methods that Shaw purportedly uses, none of the originally presented
findings materializes. While campaigns may engage in systematic planning
of their campaigns and adhere to their pre-formulated strategies, we argue
that Shaw's work brings us no closer to verifying that conclusion.
Best,
Lanhee, Andrew, and Tiffany
Hi all,
So Yev and I have attempted to obtain Robust Standard Errors on the Windows
Version of R for now. The only thing is, even after we load library("car"),
the summary of our lm is identical to what we got before.
Our search of R-help came up with this:
http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/help/02a/2241.html
which suggests that we use hccm(), which is a function within "car"
Is that right? hccm gave us really small standard errors and we're not sure if
we're doing the right thing.
Thanks,
Phillip.
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Phillip Y. Lipscy
Perkins Hall Room #129
35 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617)493-4893 DORM
(617)851-8220 CELL
lipscy(a)fas.harvard.edu
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~lipscy/
First Year Student, Ph.D. Program
Harvard University, FAS, Department of Government
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SOLICITNG FOR ASSSTANCE
AND BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP
INVESTENT OF US$18.5 MILLION
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God...Bless.
killy...Johnson.
I will have a regular office hour today from 4 to 6pm.
Kosuke
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 11:58:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: Yevgeniy Kirpichevsky <kirpich(a)fas.harvard.edu>
To: Kosuke Imai <kimai(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Subject: office hrs
Kosuke,
will you be in the office today @4?
-y and p
