[gov3009-l] Applied Statistics Workshop: WEDNESDAY, September 21, 12 noon

*************************************** Research Workshop in Applied Statistics *************************************** Faculty Sponsors: Alberto Abadie (Kennedy School) Lee Fleming (Business School) Guido Imbens (Economics) Gary King (Government) Kevin Quinn (Government) James Robins (School of Public Health) Donald Rubin (Statistics) Christopher Winship (Sociology) 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 and student participants in the workshop present their current projects, and guest speakers give occasional presentations. The workshop provides an excellent opportunity for informal interaction between graduate students and faculty from a variety of disciplines. Course credit is available for students as either an upper-level Government or Sociology class. Free lunch is provided. If you are interested, please be sure to attend our organizational meeting on Wednesday, September 21st at noon, in Room N354 at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS is located on the 3rd Floor of CGIS North, 1737 Cambridge St., located behind the Design School). Contact information and previous presentations may be found at the course web site: http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~gov3009/ To join the gov3009 mailing list, send e-mail to gov3009-l-request(a)fas.harvard.edu with the following text message: subscribe end Any questions? Please feel free to email me at <kellerm(a)fas.harvard.edu>du>. Sincerely, Mike Kellermann Workshop Coordinator --- Michael Kellermann Ph.D Candidate, Department of Government Harvard University kellerm(a)fas.harvard.edu http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~kellerm/