Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Nonparametric Approaches to Multiple Comparisons

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I have recently started reading "Applied Nonparametric Econometrics", and was thinking, when was the last time I even worked with...
Sunday, December 6, 2015

Do We Really Need Zero-Inflated Models?-Paul Allison

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Paul Allison discusses zero inflated vs negative binomial models in a post I stumbled across recently. Also William Greene and Paul go back ...
Saturday, December 5, 2015

Do Friends Let Friends Do IV...or is all of that unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity all in your head?

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A few weeks ago, there was a post that caught my attention at the 'Kids Prefer Cheese' blog titled "Friends don't let Frien...
Saturday, November 28, 2015

Econometrics, Multiple Testing, and Researcher Degrees of Freedom

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Some have criticized that econometrics courses often give too much emphasis to things like heteroskedasticity, and multicollinearity, or  c...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Directed Acyclical Graphs (DAGs) and Instrumental Variables

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Previously I discussed several of the most useful descriptions of instrumental variables that I have encountered through various sources. I ...
Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Instrumental Explanations of Instrumental Variables

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I have recently discussed Marc Bellemare's 'Metrics Monday posts, but he's written many many more applied econometrics posts tha...

'Big' Data vs. 'Clean' Data

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I've previously written about the importance of data cleaning , and recently I was reading a post- Data Science Can Transform Agricultur...