Category Archives: R statistics

In a program I am writing I want the same utility file to be run on different datasets and certain variables in the dataset. But the datasets have different sets of variables. So a nice Stata tip, adapted for my … Continue reading →

The ideal job for every Econ major! You can follow Levin on Twitter here. Matt Levin is the data dude for CALmatters. His work entails distilling complex policy topics into easily digestible charts and graphs, finding and writing original stories … Continue reading →

The folks at stackoverflow just dismissed this question. But is an honest and useful question to have answered, for some applications.  And here is a good ttip from fentonsrule: This is something I learned on my own. If you create … Continue reading →

Turns out Clay Ford at the University of Virginia wrote a nice tutorial for this, and a package does the trick very nicely.  I tested the “update” at the bottom of the post which shows how to use the pdftools … Continue reading →

Rigorous documentation of the analysis plan, procedure, and computer codes enhances the comprehensibility and transparency of data analysis. Documentation is particularly critical when the codes and data are meant to be publicly shared and examined by the scientific community to … Continue reading →

Stepping back from the immediate question of whether the CCES in fact shows a low rate of voting among non-citizens, our analysis carries a much broader lesson and caution about the analysis of big databases to study low frequency characteristics … Continue reading →