Quantitative Research Methods
RPAD/RPOS 517
RPAD/RPOS 517
Syllabus - Current (updating): Spring 2019
Syllabi (Old): Spring 2018; Spring 2017
Class Schedule and Materials
| At Home (before class) |
In Class | Stata | R | Python |
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| Read: Replication articles Notes on Computing Introduction to Stata Introduction to LaTeX Download and install: R and RStudio Browse pricing for: Stata Browse options for LaTeX: Notes on LaTeX Videos: Intro to R Intro to RStudio Intro to Stata (YouTube) Intro to LaTeX (YouTube, using MiKTeX and TeXStudio) |
Introductions Syllabus Computing: Intro to Stata Intro to LaTeX Intro to Assigmment 0.01 |
Template 1 (.do-file in markdown) Template 2 (.do-file in LaTeX) |
Template 1 (.Rmd) | Template (.py) |
| At Home (before class) |
In Class | Stata | R | Python |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read: Bailey, Ch 2
Do: Assignment 1A |
Do: Assignment 1B | Assignment Template using MarkDoc (.md or .tex) |
Assignment Template (.Rmd) | Template (.py) |
| At Home (before class) |
In Class | Stata | R | Python |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assignment 2A | Assignment 2B | |||
| At Home (before class) |
In Class | Stata | R | Python |
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| Assignment 3A | Assignment 3B | Midterm Template (.do for LaTeX) |
Midterm Template (.Rmd) |
Python (.py) |
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| At Home (before class) |
In Class | Stata | R | Python | |
| Assignment 4A | Assignment 4B | ||||
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| At Home (before class) |
In Class | Stata | R | Python | |
| Model Evaluation | Assignment 5A | Assignment 5B | |||
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| At Home (before class) |
In Class | Stata | R | Python | |
| Graphing | Assignment 6A | Assignment 6B | |||
| At Home (before class) |
In Class | Stata | R | Python | |
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| Diagnostics and Case Selection |
Assignment 7A | Assignment 7B | |||
| At Home (before class) |
In Class | Stata | R | Python | |
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| Topic | Assignments | Code | |||
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| At Home (before class) |
In Class | Stata | R | Python | |
| Diagnostics and Case Selection |
Assignment 7A | Assignment 7B | |||
| Topic | Assignments | Code | |||
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| At Home (before class) |
In Class | Stata | R | Python | |
| Dummy Variables and Dummy Interactions |
Assignment 8A | Assignment 8B | Pre-Registration Template (.do for LaTeX) |
Pre-Registration Template (.Rmd) |
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| Topic | Assignments | Code | |||
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| At Home (before class) |
In Class | Stata | R | Python | |
| Continuous Interactions | Assignment 9A | Assignment 9B | |||
| Topic | Assignments | Code | |||
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| At Home (before class) |
In Class | Stata | R | Python | |
| Transformations, Non-linearities, Standardized Coefficients |
Assignment 10A | Assignment 10B | |||
| Topic | Assignments | Code | |||
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| At Home (before class) |
In Class | Stata | R | Python | |
| 13 | Locally-Weighted OLS | Assignment 11A | Assignment 11B | ||
| Topic | Assignments | Code | |||
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| At Home (before class) |
In Class | Stata | R | Python | |
| Dummy Dependent Variables | Assignment 12A | Assignment 12B | |||
| Topic | Assignments | Code | |||
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| At Home (before class) |
In Class | Stata | R | Python | |
| Review; Extensions; Next Steps |
Replication Template (.do for LaTeX) Review Template (.do for LaTeX) |
Replication Template (.Rmd) Review Template (.Rmd) |
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Additional Resources:
General:
Workflow Notes
Computing Notes
Programming:
Stata Notes
R Notes
Notes on Moving Between R and Stata (Jupyter and knitr)
Python Notes
Text Processing:
LaTeX Notes
Markdown Notes
HTML Notes
Integration:
MarkDoc
knitr in R
Sweave in R
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