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Research Workshop in Applied Statistics
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Please join us this Wednesday, September 27, at 12 noon for Ben Hansen's
presentation, "Covariate balance in simple, stratified and clustered
comparative studies". The working paper that accompanies the talk is available
from the workshop website: http://courses.gov.harvard.edu/gov3009
Lunch will be served at noon, and the presentation will begin at 12:15 PM in
Room 354 of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, located in the CGIS
Knafel Building at 1737 Cambridge St. (next to the Design School). We hope you
can attend.
Any Questions? Feel free to email me at enpowell (at) fas.harvard.edu.
Sincerely,
Ellie Powell
Workshop Coordinator
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Eleanor Neff Powell
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Government
Harvard University
1737 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Research Workshop in Applied Statistics
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This Wednesday, September 20, is the first meeting of the Applied
Statistics Workshop. Please join us at 12 noon for Jake Bowers's
presentation, "Fixing Broken Experiments: A Proposal to Bolster the Case
for Ignorability Using Subclassification and Full Matching." The abstract
of the paper is available from the workshop website:
http://courses.gov.harvard.edu/gov3009
Lunch will be served at noon, and the presentation will begin at 12:15 PM
in Room 354 of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, located in
the CGIS Knafel Building at 1737 Cambridge St. (next to the Design
School). We hope you can attend.
The Research Workshop in Applied Statistics is a forum for graduate
students, faculty, and visiting scholars to present and discuss work in
progress and exchange ideas. it is intended as a tour of Harvard's
statistical innovations and applications with weekly stops in different
disciplines such as economics, epidemiology, medicine, political science,
psychology, public policy, public health, sociology and statistics. The
topics of papers presented in recent years include matching estimators,
missing data, survey analysis, Bayesian simulation, sample selection,
detecting biological attacks, the impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit,
and voter choice.
Faculty Sponsors:
Alberto Abadie (Kennedy School)
Lee Fleming (Business School)
Adam Glynn (Government)
Gary King (Government)
Donald Rubin (Statistics)
Chris Winship (Sociology)
Any Questions? Feel free to email me at enpowell (at) fas.harvard.edu.
Sincerely,
Ellie Powell
Workshop Coordinator
Eleanor Neff Powell
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Government
Harvard University
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
