gov1000-list January 2003

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by Nirmala Ravishankar

I have a question about Stata I am hoping one of you can answer. Is there some way of calculating the mean or the median of a variable that does not involve using the command "collapse (mean)" or "collapse (median). Once I use collapse, stata clears the original data out of the work space, which is annoying. I have a variable dpi, which stores household income. First I want to calculate the median income for the entire dataset. Then I want to disaggregate the households by region and calculate the regional medians. Lastly, I want to calculate the ratio of the regional medians to the national median. I have tried: collapse (median) natm = dpi collapse (median) regm = dpi, by(region) But after the first command, Stata doesn't seem to recognize the variable name dpi anymore. I could load the original dataset again, but that seems so cumbersome for a relative simple operation (I can do it easily in R!!). Any ideas? Thanks, Nirmala

21 years, 3 months

re: abstract placement

by Yongwook Ryu

all, does anyone know how to place the abstract on top of Page 1 rather than on a separate page? Help will be appreciated. i hope that all of you are working on Gov 1000. ^0^ yongwook ----------------------------- Yongwook Ryu PhD Candidate Department of Government Harvard University Tel:617-493-3397 Email: yryu(a)fas.harvard.edu -----------------------------

21 years, 3 months

final papers online

by Tao Li

there are 3 papers missing due to technical problems with the disk. the authors pls email a copy to me. thanks. Tao Li -------------- www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~li7

21 years, 3 months

formatting a Latex document for double-space and 1 inch margins

by Olivia Lau

Forget \usepackage{fullpage} because the top margin is only 0.5 inches...instead use: \topmargin = 10 mm \oddsidemargin = 0 mm \evensidemargin = 0 mm \headheight = 0 mm \headsep = 0 mm \textheight = 210 mm \textwidth = 165 mm for 1 inch margins all around. To double-space, \usepackage{doublespace} Yours, Olivia.

21 years, 3 months

hi pllllllzzzzzzzzzzzz read this letter it is very inportent

by Cadyesc＠aol.com

can u give me the info for being in the cia im a 8th grader and next year i will be in high school

21 years, 3 months

LaTeX table formatting (unrelated to final)

by Andrew Reeves

I have included the code for a table I am working on for another class; however I'm having two problems. The second and third columns contain the same number of characters yet one is way larger than the other. I want them to be the same size. Second problem is trying to include footnotes in the table. Using \footnotemark is not working within the caption of the chart? Any help would be appreciated as I am about 3 or 4 frustrating errors away from doing the document in Word Perfect. Thanks, Andrew \documentclass{article} %==decimal align package==% \usepackage{dcolumn} \newcolumntype{.}{D{.}{.}{-1}} \newcolumntype{d}[1]{D{.}{.}{#1}} \begin{document} \begin{table}[htb] \caption{Political Campaign Services Rendered by Public Relations Counseling Frims in Connection with Nomination and Election Camaigns for Public Office, 1952-1957, Responses from 130 Firms \footnotemark} \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{l|.|.} \hline &\multicolumn{2}{|c}{Firms Performing Indicated}\\ \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Service} &\multicolumn{2}{|c}{Service(of 130 Responding)}\\ \cline{2-3} &\multicolumn{1}{|c|}{No.} &\multicolumn{1}{|c}{Percent\footnotemark}\\ \hline Service of Some Kind & 78 & 60\\ Type of service performed:& &\\ \hspace{.3in} Arrangement of adverstising space or air time & 57 & 44\\ \hspace{.3in} Preparation of publicity materials, speech writing, etc. &66&51\\ \hspace{.3in} Counseling on strategy or tactics of campaign issues & 70 & 54\\ \hspace{.3in} Fundraising & 36 & 28\\ \hspace{.3in} Over-all campaign management & 41 & 32\\ \hspace{.3in} Other & 14& 11\\ Rendered service for more than one political party& 28 & 22\\\hline \end{tabular} \end{center} \label{datsum} \end{table} \end{document}

21 years, 3 months

so confused.

by Olivia Lau

For those of you (like me) who are getting progressively more confused as the evening progresses: http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/imbens/e244_f02/chap1.pdf http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/imbens/e244_f02/chap3.pdf Yours, Olivia.

21 years, 3 months

excluding extreme observations

by dkane＠latte.harvard.edu

Stanislav Markus writes: > Dear Dave, Gary, Tao, > > I remember Dave pointing out in one of the homeworks that extreme > observations (say dprct below 0.3 and over 0.7) should be excluded from > the dataset during cleaning - I wonder why such reduction in n is > justifiable ex ante, before, say, looking at the distribution of > residuals. It is not necessarily justified. I *think* that we did it bacause that is what they did in GK and the first step was to replicate their results. Other issues to think about in this context (as always) is precisely what you are trying to estimate. For GK it was incumbency advantage is *contested* elections. We might all agree that any election in which no Republican runs is not "contested". But what about an election in which a Republican runs, but he gets only 1% of the vote? Is that election meaningfully contested? Probably not. In most such cases, the Republican candidate isn't really a professional politician, just someone who thought it would be fun to see his name on the ballot. The difficult part is then deciding where to draw the line. In my mind, the key, however, is to do the analysis with various definitions of "contested" and then reporting to the reader (either in a table or a footnote, depending on how interesting the result is) what impact this has on your key quantity of interest. In the articles we read for the last class, you could see lots of examples of this sort of stuff, where the authors said, "We tried this and that and the other thing, but the results were largely the same." Of course, you can only say this if it is true. Dave -- David Kane Lecturer In Government 617-563-0122 dkane(a)latte.harvard.edu Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

21 years, 3 months

natbib @InBook issue

by Ryan Thomas Moore

All: Does anyone know why, using the "pa" bibliography style, the InBook references might not work? I'm getting things like "Wash.D.C.: CQ Press Chapter State Legislature" when it should change fonts, punctuate, or do something to set off the chapter "State Legislature". I suspect it shouldn't include the word "chapter" either... Thanks! Ryan ------------------------------------------ Ryan T. Moore ~ Government & Social Policy Ph.D. Candidate ~ Harvard University

21 years, 3 months

Labelling lines

by Nirmala Ravishankar

Hey folks, Have any of you figured out how to label the actual plotted line. For example, if I am plotting two lines on the same graph, it would be convenient to have little labels next to them like Fig 3 in GK. - N

21 years, 3 months

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