POLI574 Front Page

Everything related to the course as a whole will be on this page or as comments to the page.

The weekly topics will be their own blog post, initiated by the instructor for that week. See the list of Blog
Posts
in the sidebar at right.

The email list is poli-574@interchange.ubc.ca

The schedule is:

Week of May 2: Multilevel Models — Marc-Andre Bodet

Week of May 9: Discrete Choice — Fred Cutler

Week of May 23: Survival/Event History — Chris Kam

sessions on May 25 9:30-12:30 and May 27 9:30-12:30

Week of May 30: Time-Series Cross-Section (TSCS) — Anjali Bohlken

Here is the POLI580 syllabus from a similar course a few years ago.

6 replies on “POLI574 Front Page”

Here’s what I think we agreed to, with flexibility across the four weeks, of course.

The format will be pre-session reading, mostly lecture by instructor on Tuesday, homework assignment to get started applying the technique between sessions, then a hands-on session with Stata on Thursday, followed by a write up of results from that session.

People taking it for credit will do a big graduate-term-paper thing after the course using one or more of the methods on a suitable dataset of their choice.

(Long) excerpts Chapter 2 and 3 of Rabe-Hesketh & Skrondal can be found on the Multilevel Models post. I will post Chapter 4 and 6 on Monday and Tuesday.

I have posted parts of Chapter 6 for Thursday’s class. I will also post additional data files and syntax tomorrow. If you have any questions regarding your assignment, please send me an email or come to see me Wednesday between 9am and 11am in C413.

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