*************************************** Research Workshop in Applied Statistics *************************************** Faculty Sponsors: Garrett Fitzmaurice (School of Public Health) Lee Fleming (Business School) Gary King (Government) Donald Rubin (Statistics) Jasjeet Sekhon (Government) 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 also 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 22nd at noon, in Room 22, Center for Basic Research in Social Sciences (CBRSS, 34 Kirkland St., this is the yellow building across the street from William James Hall). 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 <dhopkins(a)fas.harvard.edu>du>. Sincerely, Dan Hopkins Workshop Coordinator