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Print References/Reading List/Bibliography in Your Syllabus (With Some Style)...
A stack of things to read.It’s the start of the semester for a lot of us, which means it’s time to create our syllabi and tell students to read things in hopes that they might actually read them. No...
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A (Partial) Analysis of RuPaul's Lip Sync Songs from RuPaul's Drag Race
Sorry, MotherI’m in the gradual process of rehauling my {dragracer} package to make it more feature-rich for interested users. As far as R packages go, it was never going to be something super useful...
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Log, Log, Log (i.e. What Logarithmic Transformations Do to Your OLS Model...
It's better than bad; it's good.I’m writing this out of necessity so that it may go into a future grad-level course about what logarithmic transformations do to your OLS model. When we are first...
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How to Adjust for Economic Indicators for Inflation (and Index Them)
Swedes love their coffee; fortunately for them, coffee as commodity is a lot cheaper than it was. I’m writing this out of necessity so that I can try to avoid the discomfort of a student presenting a...
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A Third Academic R Markdown Article/Manuscript Template
I did another thing. Here's what that thing looks like.I wrote another R Markdown article template for your consideration. I’m going to try to be brief here, padding only to make sure that there’s...
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Correlating Democracy and Per Capita Income: A Simple Introduction to an Old...
We typically credit Seymour Martin Lipset for first noting this correlation.I’m teaching an undergraduate class on quantitative methods where I’ve been cautioned—repeatedly—the students are not super...
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Taming the Poisson Model: A Tutorial
The Kent State shooting was the proximate cause, but the Vietnam War protest and counter-demonstration at the University of New Mexico was comparably violent. 11 people were stabbed with New Mexico...
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Linear Model Diagnostics by IR Example
Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which ran from 2001 to 2003, was tasked with investigating the human rights abuses committed in the country during its armed conflict with Sendero Luminoso....
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What the Probit Link is Trying to Tell You (and How You Can Help It)
Ohio State alumnus Chester Bliss (right) formalized and named the intuition behind the 'probit'. Ronald A. Fisher (left) worked with him to devise the MLE method for fitting probit lines to...
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