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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.
arczhenhan, 
mabodet, and 
cutler are discussing.
cutler 11:54 am on April 27, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Data files can only be uploaded as “media” and only in .zip format.
cutler 10:05 am on April 29, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
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.
mabodet 1:47 pm on April 29, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
(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.
mabodet 10:32 pm on May 2, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I have posted some data and a do-file for tomorrow’s class…
mabodet 4:03 pm on May 3, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
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.
arczhenhan 10:01 am on May 4, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
For Thursday (May 6th) class, Multi-level analysis:
For Windows users, Please click this link to download the zip file of Rabe-Hesketh & Skrondal (2008), Chapter 4 and 6.
I find that whenever I upload the zip file to UBC blog server and download it from there, Windows tells me the zip file is broken. So I used the fileserve, an external online storage space. Please let me know if it is not proper and I will remove it.