Olivia,
Thanks for all this!
Regards,
Paul.
?? Olivia Lau <olau(a)fas.harvard.edu>du>:
Hi, everyone.
As I mentioned in section, problem set 6 will be due in lecture
on Monday, Nov. 4th. Problem set 7 will be due in section on
Thursday, Nov. 18th. These problem sets aren't longer than the
other problem sets -- this is intended to give you more time to
work on your papers.
About last week's section and next week's section:
Gary covered two really important concepts in lecture last week:
1) maximum likelihood and 2) interpreting regression output via
simulation. I covered (1) in section this week and will cover
(2) this coming week in section (in other words, I'll present
the Zelig deck from APSA).
As I mentioned to those who showed up, these two sections are
the most important in the course because we're going over how to
write a new model, and a generalized framework for interpreting
output from all statistical models, and irrespective of the
methodology of the original paper, we expect a few things in
your final paper:
1) You should choose a model compatible with the hypothesized
event generating mechanism (and if the model hasn't been
programmed, you should program it yourseif via maximum
likelihood, and if you don't know what I'm talking about, you
need to read the handout for 10/28...)
and
2) You should interpret the regression results in your final
paper by simulating quantities of interest (which is why next
week is important).
So if you couldn't make it to section last Thursday, read the
handout and let me know if you have questions. And you should
come to section this Thursday, because I don't think Gary is
going to go back and cover simulation again.
Yours,
Olivia Lau
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