Gov2001 May 2008

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[gov2001-l] [Fwd: Quantitative Research Methods Instructor]

by king＠harvard.edu

Hi everyone, I thought some of you might be interested in this opportunity. Gary -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Quantitative Research Methods Instructor Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 10:01:04 -0400 From: Christine Rossell <crossell at bu.edu> To: king at harvard.edu Is it possible for you to disseminate this email to your students? *_PART-TIME INSTRUCTOR NEEDED_* *FOR 3 HOUR REQUIRED GRADUATE SEMINAR, BOSTON UNIVERSITY POLITICAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT* *GRS PO 841 Quantitative Research Methods* Quantitative research methods and designs used in political analysis and policy evaluation. Students gain a basic knowledge of research design, research issues, data file construction, multiple regression analysis, time series cross-sections, and logistic analysis using Stata and graphical presentation of data with Stata and Excel. *TIME PERIOD: FALL 2008 (SEPT. 2-DEC. 11)* *DAY AND TIME NEGOTIABLE* *MUST HAVE Ph.D.* *SALARY: $6,500 * ** *Please contact Prof. Christine Rossell, tel: 617-566-7419 or crossell at bu.edu <mailto:crossell at bu.edu> (Chair of Search Committee)* ** Also attached is the syllabus for last fall. The instructor may of course deviate from this. I normally teach this course, but I will be on sabbatical for the fall. We just got permission to hire an instructor. However, because it is a grad seminar, the person should have a PhD by the time the course starts. Thank you your help. Christine Rossell Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Room 202, 232 Bay State Road Boston University Boston, MA 02215 Tel: 617-353-2776; Fax: 617-353-5508

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[gov2001-l] party

by king＠harvard.edu

Hi everyone. I'd like to have you all over to my house for an end of year party on Saturday May 10th at noon. Please feel free to bring a guest, kids, etc. We've got 2 dogs, in case that's an issue for anyone. We live in Brookline about 5 miles from HU, and easy to get to by Bus, T, or car. Directions are at this hidden link: http://gking.harvard.edu/directions I'd appreciate if you'd RSVP soon, by responding to me and my assistant Bev who I've CC'd, so we can get a count for food. Let me know whether you can make it and if you'll be bringing someone. I hope to see you there. Gary

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[gov2001-l] Computer game as likelihood maximizer

by abfriedman＠gmail.com

Anyone want to write a similar version to solve regressions in R? :-) http://www.hhmi.org/news/foldit20080508.html http://www.fold.it http://fold.it/portal/info/science The sites are a little slow right now but should be faster tomorrow after the buzz has worn off. Ari

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[gov2001-l] smaller first page heading in latex document

by ltai＠post.harvard.edu

Hi all, I've been using the course hw template for every latex document I type. I've seen other documents that take up much less space on the first page (with the title, author, etc.) until reaching the text. Would anyone know how to change the preamble settings to do this or be able to point me to an alternative template that does this? Thanks, Laurence

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[gov2001-l] matlab to R

by jbischof＠fas.harvard.edu

Anyone know a way to convert matlab datafiles (.mat) into R? It doesn't seem to be supported by the "foreign" library. Thanks, -- Jon Bischof Graduate Student Department of Government Harvard University

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[gov2001-l] paper submission

by yinanzhu＠fas.harvard.edu

Just to make sure: we are allowed to submit the paper online, yes? -- Yinan Zhu Harvard Class of 2011 (626) 321-5878

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[gov2001-l] Paper length -- is the title page 1 of 20 or 0 of 20?

by john.sheffield＠gmail.com

I.e. does the title page count toward our total?

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[gov2001-l] tick labels on plots

by keith.schnakenberg＠gmail.com

I have made a confidence interval plot using plot.ci in Zelig. I am using an 4-level ordered variable on the x axis, and I want the tick labels to give "Excellent", "Good", "Fair", "Poor" rather than 1,2,3,4. I told R the following: plot.ci(peconsim, CI = 95, qi = "ev", axes=FALSE, main = "", xlim = NULL, ylim = NULL, col="black") axis(side=1, at=seq(1,4,1), paste(c("Excellent", "Good", "Fair", "Poor"), seq(1,4,1))) This puts the values in the right places, but it just places them over top of the numbers. How do I make the numbers go away and just display the words as tick labels? Thanks, Keith

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[gov2001-l] More Tex - column-merging

by john.sheffield＠gmail.com

I suppose it's good that we all need TeX rather than R help now... in any case, I'm running two models on unmatched and matched data, and I want to show clearly which models correspond to which data by merging the columns and applying "Unmatched" and "Matched" labels in the merged columns. In case that didn't make sense, here's what I want to do, with 5 columns total: *| one || unmatched || matched | * | one || mod1 | mod2 || mod1 | mod2 | And here's my text thus far: \begin{table}[h!] \centering \caption{Hazard Ratio Estimates} \smallskip \begin{threeparttable} \begin{tabular}{c||c|c||c|c} \hline \hline \multicolumn{5}{|c||cc||cc}{& Unmatched Data & Matched Data} \\ & Cox & BTSCS & Cox & BTSCS \\ \hline Fight in War $0\rightarrow1$ & 0.619 & 0.571 & 1.094 & 1.343 \\ Std. Err. & 0.062 & 0.049 & 0.197 & 0.187 \\ 95 \% C.I. & (0.508, 0.746) & (0.481, 0.674) & (0.760, 1.525) & (1.004, 1.737) \\ \hline Initiate War $0\rightarrow1$ & 0.594 & 0.538 & 0.756 & 0.794 \\ Std. Err. & 0.096 & 0.072 & 0.189 & 0.174 \\ 95 \% C.I. & (0.429, 0.798) & (0.411, 0.691) & (0.446, 1.190) & (0.504, 1.174) \\ \hline Defend in War $0\rightarrow1$ & 0.612 & 0.620 & 0.813 & 1.250 \\ Std. Err. & 0.086 & 0.071 & 0.165 & 0.200 \\ 95 \% C.I. & (0.468, 0.795) & (0.488, 0.772) & (0.540, 1.181) & (0.892, 1.673) \\ \hline\hline \end{tabular} \begin{tablenotes} \item[a] Begin notes here \end{tablenotes} \end{threeparttable} \end{table}

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[gov2001-l] Latex

by vrios＠fas.harvard.edu

Hi all, Does anybody know how can I add a note to a figure using Latex? By "note" I mean a brief explanatory paragraph that visually matches the inserted figure. Best, -- Viridiana R?os 617-997-2471

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