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Distinguished Speaker Series: A Seminar taught by Gary King
“Matching Methods for Observational and Experimental Causal Inference”

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Sub-setting Qualitative Data for Machine Learning or Export

Many researchers use ‘sets’ in analyzing qualitative data, such as in-depth interview transcripts, fieldnotes, and focus groups. Sets are groups of ‘things,’ grouped in ways designated by a...

Don’t Put Lagged Dependent Variables in Mixed Models

When estimating regression models for longitudinal panel data, many researchers include a lagged value of the dependent variable as a predictor....
Jun 02, 2015
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Maximum Likelihood is Better than Multiple Imputation: Part II

In my July 2012 post, I argued that maximum likelihood (ML) has several advantages over multiple imputation (MI) for handling missing data:...
May 05, 2015
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What’s So Special About Logit?

For the analysis of binary data, logistic regression dominates all other methods in both the social and biomedical sciences. It wasn’t...
Apr 01, 2015
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Imputation by Predictive Mean Matching: Promise & Peril

Predictive mean matching (PMM) is an attractive way to do multiple imputation for missing data, especially for imputing quantitative variables that...
Mar 05, 2015
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Getting the Lags Right

In my November and December posts, I extolled the virtues of SEM for estimating dynamic panel models. By combining fixed effects...
Feb 10, 2015
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More on Causal Inference With Panel Data

This is a follow-up to last month’s post, in which I considered the use of panel data to answer questions about...
Nov 25, 2014

Using Panel Data to Infer Causal Direction: ML vs. Arellano-Bond

Does x cause y or does y cause x? Virtually everyone agrees that cross-sectional data are of no use in answering...
Nov 03, 2014
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Sensitivity Analysis for Not Missing at Random

When I teach my seminar on Missing Data, the most common question I get is “What can I do if my...
Sep 25, 2014
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Problems with the Hybrid Method

For several years now, I’ve been promoting something I called the “hybrid method” as a way of analyzing longitudinal and other...
Sep 02, 2014
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Free SAS!

UPDATE, 11 February 2021.  SAS University Edition will soon be phased out.  It will end completely on Aug. 2, 2021. You...
Jul 24, 2014
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Prediction vs. Causation in Regression Analysis

In the first chapter of my 1999 book Multiple Regression, I wrote “There are two main uses of multiple regression: prediction...
Jul 08, 2014
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Listwise Deletion: It’s NOT Evil

At the 1998 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Gary King and three co-authors presented a paper titled “Listwise...
Jun 13, 2014
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