Would anyone be interested in a little consulting gig? These folks
would like a few hours of help, right now basically, getting their
data into R. They ultimately want to use MatchIt, which you haven't
used yet, but mostly they seem to want help with R. If you're
interested, please contact them directly. See the messages below.
Incidentally, my practice is to keep this email list alive until the
start of the next time I teach this class, and even after the end of
our class to forward opportunities like this to you. You should of
course feel free to ignore any or all of them, but some might be of
use, and in the past have led to jobs, data sets, consulting income,
and even entire careers.
Gary
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Wells, Aaron <Aaron.Wells at healthways.com>
Date: Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: MatchIt assistance for Healthways, Inc.
To: king at harvard.edu
Honestly, we would really benefit from a hands-on application of the
program using a subset of our data. Since we are not R users, the R
interface and programming does not immediately make sense to us and we
are working under tight timelines.
Thank you for consideration.
----- Original Message -----
From: Gary King <king at harvard.edu>
To: Wells, Aaron
Sent: Fri Feb 19 10:44:34 2010
Subject: Re: MatchIt assistance for Healthways, Inc.
thanks for your note.? what kind of help do you need??? recoding and
such?? or more statistical issues?
Gary
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On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Wells, Aaron
<Aaron.Wells at healthways.com> wrote:
> Dr. King,
>
> I lead our Health Research and Outcomes division within Healthways, which is
> a leading firm in the condition management and wellness space. I am
> inquiring into the possibility of working with you or more likely, one of
> your trusted grad students, to understand more completely the MatchIt
> software you have co-developed. ?My group has advanced econometric and
> statistical degrees (masters and phd level) so our comprehension of the
> algorithms is fairly solid, with the exception of the weighting matrices,
> which we would like some additional detail around. ?Also, and unfortunately,
> we are experiencing issues with R coding that are causing some issues as we
> investigate the use of the MatchIt software (we use SAS and Limdep
> exclusively). ?In conclusion, we would hopefully only require a few hours of
> time to better understand the MatchIt software and its application to our
> data.
>
> Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Aaron
>
> Aaron R. Wells, Ph.D.
> Health Research & Outcomes
> Healthways, Inc.
> 615.614.4938
>
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Hi gang, I had another thought for an additional item to be added to my
suggestions on how to choose articles to replicate. I just added it as #4
at http://gking.harvard.edu/papers/, but here's a copy too:
Although throughout the process you will (i.e., should) do whatever you can
to avoid a conflictual relationship with the authors of the article you
replicate, you might as well eliminate the possibility altogether for those
with whom you have ongoing professional relationships, such as faculty on
your committee or in your department. Since there are so many other options
out there, its easy to avoid even potential conflicts like these by making
wise choices now. This will also help you ensure that your decisions are not
influenced by anything but producing the best work.
I hope that's helpful.
Gary
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Hey folks,
Sorry for the technical snafu in section today. I've gone ahead and
commented my Latex file, and it's now posted on the course website
(under section 4), along with supporting documents. Those of you new
to Latex should be able to get a good sense of how to get started just
from working through the .text file and playing around with it.
If there are questions, feel free to let me know!
Maya
I'm not sure why the simplest problem is giving me the most trouble. I'm
wondering if I made a stupid error that's sent me down the wrong path.
I'm finding several MLEs for beta in 1.2. Does that seem right?
~J
Hi all,
If there is anyone who still does not have a co-author, and is interested in finding one, let me know!
I've seen quite a few interesting papers on the apsa website.
Here are my details:
Name: Nino Malekovic,
Email: nino_malekovic at hks11.harvard.edu
Research interests: quantitative and formal methods, political economy, judicial politics.
My address: 84 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA (10 minutes away from Harvard Square).
The best time to work on a paper: Fridays, weekends, and evenings.
Best,
Nino Malekovic
MPA Candidate, Class 2011
Harvard Kennedy School
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Hey folks,
Just a reminder that we're having section tonight at 6pm as usual.
This evening, Iain and I will be going over some more advanced R code,
as well as going through how you set up and compile a LaTeX document.
Both of these will help you get up to speed if this term is the first
time you're seeing R/LaTeX.
Also -- another reminder that there's no problem set this week due to
the President's Day holiday. For those writing a replication paper, it
would be a great idea to spend your extra free time this week looking
at potential articles to replicate. To help, I'm attaching to this
email a sheet of replication paper tips. (I'll also post this on the
course webpage.)
best, Maya
Ninoslav Malekovic
MPA Candidate, Class 2011
Harvard Kennedy School
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Hey folks,
Just a reminder that we're having section tonight at 6pm as usual.
This evening, Iain and I will be going over some more advanced R code,
as well as going through how you set up and compile a LaTeX document.
Both of these will help you get up to speed if this term is the first
time you're seeing R/LaTeX.
Also -- another reminder that there's no problem set this week due to
the President's Day holiday. For those writing a replication paper, it
would be a great idea to spend your extra free time this week looking
at potential articles to replicate. To help, I'm attaching to this
email a sheet of replication paper tips. (I'll also post this on the
course webpage.)
best, Maya
Hey folks,
Just a reminder that we're having section tonight at 6pm as usual.
This evening, Iain and I will be going over some more advanced R code,
as well as going through how you set up and compile a LaTeX document.
Both of these will help you get up to speed if this term is the first
time you're seeing R/LaTeX.
Also -- another reminder that there's no problem set this week due to
the President's Day holiday. For those writing a replication paper, it
would be a great idea to spend your extra free time this week looking
at potential articles to replicate. To help, I'm attaching to this
email a sheet of replication paper tips. (I'll also post this on the
course webpage.)
best, Maya
Hi everyone -
I have a basic question on the problem set - on question 1.3,
describing the importance of the "information" value. Even after
reading UPM Ch. 4, I'm still a little confused about how to bring the
concept of the likelihood ratio into the answer. I think I intuitively
understand why the second derivative of the log-likelihood is a good
estimate of the precision of the MLE, but the connection to the LR has
me scratching my head a bit. What am I missing?
-Michael
