Gov2001 February 2008

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[gov2001-l] delay of textbook at the harvard coop

by jhainmueller＠gmail.com

Fyi: We just got note that Unifying Political Methodology is expected to arrive at the Coop by the end of next week. Blame them not us.

16 years, 2 months

[gov2001-l] three more annoucements

by jhainmueller＠gmail.com

1. There is no class on Monday (President's day), so please feel free to go skiing instead. We will have section on Thursday as usual. 2. Additional clarification on homework submission: those attending the second section on Thursday can simply turn in their hardcopy at 6PM, but you should post your code and an ecopy of your write-up into the web-dropbox by 5PM (so contrary to popular belief you don't gain an extra hour to work on the PS by attending the later section). 3. Currently the second section is less packed than the first one so please feel free to switch to the later one. Have a great weekend, Jen[n,s]

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[gov2001-l] International health--anyone needs a partner?

by apande＠fas.harvard.edu

Hi, I am looking for a partner with an interest in International Health/ Quality of care. I have a dataset which could be looked at or we can look at another. I am a first year PhD student in the Health Policy doctoral program (GSAS) and have a background in statistics and methods, but am new to R. Please contact me should you be interested. best Aaka > <http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/gov2001-l> > >

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[gov2001-l] Final project vs. research paper for ext. students

by sjang＠hsph.harvard.edu

I'm also a long distance student. I'm at Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Society, Human Development and Health. My research interests are health policy for the elderly, health inequality (social epidemiology). I think we can co-work by e-mail. I'd like to focus on trend in health behaviors and Socioeconomic Class Disparities. International comparison study might be possible for the same subject. What do you think about my subject? Do you have any other plan? please let me know your idea. Sincerely, Soong-Nang Jang >>> Keith Schnakenberg <keith.schnakenberg at gmail.com> 02/12/08 10:44 ?? >>> I am a long-distance student looking for a potential co-author. I understand that long-distance co-authorships may be difficult, but I am very excited about doing this replication project. I'm hoping to find someone in this course who is either living in Southern California or is willing to expend the extra effort to work with a partner on a long-distance basis. Obviously this would be pending approval from the instructors. Relevant information about me: I'm a first-year MA student in political science at San Diego State University, preparing to enter a PhD program. I am also doing a large chunk of my classwork at UCSD. My research interests are comparative politics, political economy, and political institutions, but I can learn to be interested in anything. I have a substantial background in statistics, matrix algebra, and some calculus. I have not used R before this class, but I am proficient with most other commonly used packages and I'm working overtime to learn R. I work hard and I've never murdered a co-author. Feel free to reply on this list or email me privately: keith.schnakenberg at gmail.com Thanks, Keith Schnakenberg _______________________________________________ gov2001-l mailing list gov2001-l at lists.fas.harvard.edu http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/gov2001-l

16 years, 2 months

[gov2001-l] The dropbpx did not give me access!

by orgeldi＠yahoo.de

Task 1: a) Build a vector (with for 7 elements) c (1,2,3,4,7,8,6) ->x Calculate the mean sum (x)/length (x) same results as mean(x) c (1,2,3,4,7,8,6) ->x sum (x)/length (x) mean(x) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- b) c (1,2,3,4,7,8,6) ->x sort(x) (length (x) +1)/2->z x[z] in matlab function m = median(v, n) % Subfunction% Calculate median.w = sort(v);if rem(n, 2) == 1 m = w((n+1) / 2);else m = (w(n/2) + w(n/2+1)) / 2; end ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Task 2: a) mat <- matrix(0:0, nrow=100, ncol=100) x.stat <- rep (0,100) for (i in 1:100){ y<-sample (1000,100) a <- matrix(y, nrow = 100, ncol = 100) } b) daten <- matrix(runif(10000),100,100) par(mfrow=c(5,5)) for (nummer in 1:25 ) { hist(daten[, nummer])} Machen Sie Yahoo! zu Ihrer Startseite. Los geht's: http://de.yahoo.com/set

16 years, 2 months

[gov2001-l] GOV2001 Question on PS0

by jhainmueller＠gmail.com

Please always send coding questions to the list directly. You will get better and faster help there because there are many students that know the right answer (like John, Jon, Albert, and Jeremy that just provided excellent answers to Keith's question). To answer your question, there are many ways in R to check if a number is even or odd. For example, if x is your scalar (such as the length of a vector) you could use: ifelse(x %% 2, "action if x is odd", "action if x is even") Notice that x %% y asks for x mod y, so x %% 2 will return 1 (TRUE) if x is odd and 0 (FALSE) if x is even, and ifelse() then implements one of two possible actions. Check: ??%%? ?ifelse For details. Hope this helps. Jens --------------------------------------------------------------- I have a question on 0.1b. This is what I have so far but I am stuck as to how to determine if the length of the vector is even or odd: newmed <- function(a) { mediodd <- a[trunc(length(a)/2)+1] mediev <- (a[length(a)/2]+a[length(a)/2+1])/2 if (length(a) is odd) return(mediodd) if (length(a) is even) return(mediev) } Am I doing this in the right way?

16 years, 2 months

[gov2001-l] anyone needs a partner? (political economy/development)

by jluna＠fas.harvard.edu

Hi all, I think I'll also join this line. I'm a third-year at Harvard College, concentrating in economics and government. My research focuses on the political economy of Africa, particularly on the issues of ethnic identification and development policy. But I'm also very interested in other areas of economics, like behavioral and social modeling, as well as various topics in comparative politics. Let me know if you're interested! Thanks, Joe -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Joseph P. Luna Harvard College, Class of 2009 Cambridge, MA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

16 years, 2 months

[gov2001-l] anyone needs a partner? (org.studies, sociology, education)

by stellak＠MIT.EDU

Hi all, I am a 2nd-year PhD student at Sloan, MIT, in the Organization Studies Group. Looking for a partner... Sociology of education, org. stuff, or other sociology would be interesting for me. Also open to other fields, if needed. (It feels like an ad on Craigslist...) Please let me know if you are interested! Thanks! stella

16 years, 2 months

[gov2001-l] Anyone else who still needs a partner???? Re: International health--anyone needs a partner?

by akaddour＠hsph.harvard.edu

Hi, I am also at HSPH in the population and international health department and I have access to a dataset on occupational hazards and social hazards in the workplace (discrimination, abuse etc...). The authors of the data have published descriptive studies on those hazards seperately and we can attempt to replicate one of them and push it further by looking at the clustering of both types of hazards in relation to some health outcome. Does this seem interesting to anyone? Stella, this is not exactly what you are interested in but a sociological perspective can be very enriching to these kinds of analyses. Afamia >>> Stella Kounelaki <stellak at mit.edu> 02/12/08 7:28 PM >>> The international development people paired up, the health people should pair up... i think I am left with somebody who studies epidemiology... no offense, but that is a rather far stretch from sociology... (To repeat: I am doing organization studies at Sloan, MIT - PhD student in my 2nd year. I am interested in org. studies, sociology, and sociology of education.) thanks, stella Quoting Aakanksha Pande <apande at fas.harvard.edu>: > Hi, > I am looking for a partner with an interest in International Health/ Quality > of care. I have a dataset which could be looked at or we can look at > another. I am a first year PhD student in the Health Policy doctoral program > (GSAS) and have a background in statistics and methods, but am new to R. > Please contact me should you be interested. > > best > Aaka > >> <http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/gov2001-l> >> >> > _______________________________________________ gov2001-l mailing list gov2001-l at lists.fas.harvard.edu http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/gov2001-l

16 years, 2 months

[gov2001-l] To professor or TA'a: Final project v. class (research) paper

by ariel_ru2001＠yahoo.com

Professor King, Could you clarify what the difference is between the final project and research paper assignments. I am an extension school student who takes the class strictly online. What does the final project consist of? If I choose to stay with the project, does that mean I do not have to do a research paper? Dmitriy Shnypko

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