Extension Students,
For those who have only skimmed the previous emails the final was
posted at 9AM this morning.
Brandon
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Hi Class,
Does anyone know what Amelia is trying to tell me with this message:
> a.out <- amelia(imputedata, m = 5, ts = "year", cs = "id", intercs=T)-- Imputation 1 --
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Error in La.svd(x, nu, nv) : error
code 1 from Lapack routine 'dgesdd'
Google says that Amelia is not converging, but I'm not sure how to force
her! The problem goes away if I remove "intercs=T", but I think the
imputations are also much less precise. Any ideas!?
I'm sure I'm not the only one making last minute revisions, so good luck
everyone!
Colin
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Hi all,
Does anyone know how to make it so that the margins for footnotes are the
same as the margins for the rest of the text in latex? For some reason our
footnotes are coming out with a wider margin...
Also, if anyone knows how to make non-indented footnotes - \noindent doesn't
seem to work..
Cheers,
Mark
On 27 April 2011 17:48, Slawa Rokicki <slawa.rokicki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> You could also set
>
> par(mfrow=c(1,2))
>
> before you run your code in R and then you would have them side by side if
> that is what you want.
>
> Slawa
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Rachel Crouch <
> rcrouch(a)jd12.law.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>>
>> In case you are interested, here is a very helpful blog on LaTeX:
>> http://texblog.wordpress.com/. It has a post on how to use “minipage”,
>> which is how I was able to get figures to sit side by side:
>> http://texblog.wordpress.com/2007/08/01/placing-figurestables-side-by-side-…
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>> Rachel
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* gov2001-l-bounces(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu [mailto:
>> gov2001-l-bounces(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu] *On Behalf Of *Andy Hall
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 27, 2011 4:17 PM
>> *To:* Class List for Gov 2001/E-2001
>> *Subject:* Re: [gov2001] Latex figure question
>>
>>
>>
>> When ! isn't enough, I also find that strategic placing of \clearpage can
>> help (usually right after the figure in question). If the figure
>> conveniently fills up the lower half of a page, for example, this trick
>> works well. It backfires if the figure doesn't fit on the current page,
>> though, because it leads to an unsightly almost entirely blank page in the
>> document.
>>
>>
>>
>> Also, scaling the figure, using [scale=0.7] for example, can help squeeze
>> the figure in to a spot where before it was getting pushed down to another
>> page.
>>
>>
>>
>> -Andy
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Rachel Crouch <
>> rcrouch(a)jd12.law.harvard.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hi class,
>>
>>
>>
>> Does anyone know how to force figures in Latex into the place in your
>> document that you think they ought to be? They seem to have a mind of their
>> own. We’ve been able to move them around a little in our paper, and we’ve
>> gotten somewhere better than the default, but there must be a way to
>> manipulate them more. Is it possible to get a few of the figures to show up
>> side by side? Does anyone know of a good reference on this topic?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>> Rachel
>>
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Hi class,
Does anyone know how to force figures in Latex into the place in your
document that you think they ought to be? They seem to have a mind of their
own. We've been able to move them around a little in our paper, and we've
gotten somewhere better than the default, but there must be a way to
manipulate them more. Is it possible to get a few of the figures to show up
side by side? Does anyone know of a good reference on this topic?
Thanks!
Rachel
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Hi everyone,
Here is a question about instrumental variables. It might be useful
for everyone. Say you get lucky and come up with a bunch of valid
instruments. When running your IV regressions, should you use the
instruments separately, or should you throw them all in one
regression?
I am not sure which approach is more theoretically justifiable. I've
seen the first reported in economics papers frequently, but the Zelig
option where you can stick in a bunch of instruments at once calls out
at me.
Best,
Erin
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Hey class,
Does anybody know of any awesome ways to graph IV results? We're dealing with a
binary outcome (school enrollment), and we'd love to include some powerful
visual of our results, but I'm having trouble conceptualizing what an IV graph
might look like, especially with a binary outcome (i.e. the standard bivariate
plot doesn't do it). I have been playing with graphing the data in ways that
speak to what we do with the IV, but don't actually use the IV results. The
internet hasn't been too helpful.
Looking forward to any thoughts you have.
Best,
Leslie
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Gov 2001,
Hi everyone! You are almost there!
We've posted a three page handout under the Section area of the
website that details everything you need to know about the end of the
class. Please read through it carefully. The information includes
everything you need to know from the syllabus (and supersedes anything
about which there is a direct conflict) but does not contain all the
formatting guidelines for the final paper which are here:
http://gking.harvard.edu/papers/ (link is also in the handout).
Also remember that we will have the optional Bayesian section tomorrow
night and text analysis the following Wed. Most models of text are
Bayesian so it would be helpful to come to the section tomorrow if you
plan on coming to the text section.
Happy writing!
Brandon and Molly
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Hi class,
Our group is trying to do matching with a continuous treatment variable.
We've tried to use MatchIt with cem and cem() itself but have failed to get
matches. We've also tried to coarsen the treatment into categories, but the
methods are still not working. We would ideally like to match groups that
are at least two category levels apart out of 4 categories (i.e., 1 and 3; 2
and 4). If anyone knows anything about multicategory treatments for cem,
which the documentation says it can do, please email me!
Thanks,
Jackie
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Hi Class,
We are trying to set priors when using Amelia for imputation, but it
keeps return errors like "The resulting variance matrix was not invertible.
Please check your data for highly collinear variables"
The priors look something like:
pr<-matrix(NA,6,5)
for (i in 1:6){
pr[i,1]<-i+48
pr[i,2]<-47
pr[i,3]<-1.81
pr[i,4]<-2.01
pr[i,5]<-0.9
}
Amelia runs without any problem if we don't set priors. Does anybody know
what the problem might be?
Many thanks,
Yue
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Leslie Finger <lfinger(a)fas.harvard.edu>wrote:
>
>
> Dear Class,
>
> My partner and I are clustering the standard errors in new way (that we
> think
> makes more sense in theory than what the authors were doing), but now,
> while
> some clustered standard errors are very slightly bigger than the lm output,
> some standard errors are actually smaller (in the same regression). Does
> anybody have any intuition about what this might mean?
>
> -Leslie and Adela
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