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The Strange Selection Bias in LASSO
Let’s suppose you have two variables \(X\) and \(Z\) that are positively correlated. \(X\) causes \(Y\) but \(Z\) does …
Can you use IRT estimates in an error-in-variables model? A tentative yes.
One of the laments I often hear in social science is that we don’t take measurement error seriously enough. Fair enough! …
Can you use IRT estimates in an error-in-variables model? A tentative yes.
One of the laments I often hear in social science is that we don’t take measurement error seriously enough. Fair enough! …
Alcohol and Asteroids
I recently read Emily Oster’s book: Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong—and What You Really …
Do cluster robust standard errors give false positives on cross-level interactions?
One of the most easy traps to fall into in quantitative social science is fooling yourself (and your statistics …
Why is this the answer?
In my previous post I showed that the minimum inverse-probability weight in a simple random sample should be equal to …
Farage's Brexit Party Announcement and the 2019 Campaign
John Curtice, Stephen Fisher, and Patrick English made headlines recently for claiming that Nigel Farage’s decision to …
A simple function for creating dummy variables in R
As someone interested in economic voting, I create a lot of dummy variables. Most often, I have to use self-reported …
The minimum post-stratification weight in a simple-random-sample equals the response rate
As my first post on the File Drawer, I wanted to share a survey statistics result that surprised me and that I haven’t …