Hi, everyone.
Paul has a good point. On Monday you should turn in the
following:
1) A hardcopy of the replicated tables (with enough text to
explain the tables), with any extensions that you have
completed.
2) A commented code file with enough information so that anyone
can not just re-run, but reconstruct your thinking. You may
choose to turn in a code file with the comments in a separate
document.
3) You also need to provide your data (either on a CD or on a
website).
I'll let you know how many copies of the above to turn in
tomorrow afternoon. In addition, you may also wish to provide a
pdf or hardcopy of the original article, and any supplementary
information that you think someone will need to do next week's
assignment. The goal is to make this as easy as possible for
someone to *reconstruct* your replication, not just source or
load your code file.
Also, some have asked whether they can use Stata rather than R
for this assignment. The programming language for this course
is R because we want you to be able to simulate quantities of
interest from the model, not just stop with the coefficients.
If you know Stata well enough to do this on your own, you should
feel free to use Stata. If you are unable to simulate in Stata,
however, you should use R because we teach simulation in this
course in R, and your final paper will require simulation to
interpret the regression output.
Yours,
Olivia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Bodnar" <bodnar(a)fas.harvard.edu>
To: <olau(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 1:51 PM
Subject: just a suggestion
People seem to have very different interpretations of
what
they're
supposed to hand in. Some groups are apparently just planning
to turn in
replication tables; others (like us) the entire replication
code
with a step-by-step guide on how to redo it again
(as I thought Gary said to do).
ALso, I think people are unclear about what the next
assignment will
involve. Will we just have to essentially proof people's
replications by
reading the original paper and running their code? Or is it
more than
that? Given that it's Thanksgiving weekend I think it would
be good to
clarify this so we can get an estimate of how much work this
will take.
Thanks,
Paul