Methods Resources

General Methods Advice
Naming Variables from Zorn's comments on the Empirical Legal Research Blog.

Presenting statistical significance--Chris Zorn's comments on the Empirical Legal Studies blog.

Interaction resources:
Regina Branton's interaction site

Also see:

Braumoeller, Bear F. 2004. "Hypothesis Testing and Multiplicative Interaction Terms." International Organization 58: 807-820.

Brambor, Thomas, William Roberts Clark, and Matt Golder. 2005. "Understanding Interaction Models: Improving Empirical Analyses." Political Analysis 14(1): 63-82.
Material for Poli 7963 (Research Methods)
Includes material on OLS (estimating, multicollinearity, interactions, heteroskedasticity); some introductory information on analysis of dichotomous dependent variables; some introductory information on analysis of event counts; and projects and assignments
Material for 7962 (generally, univariate and bivariate stats)
Includes eleven lectures. Covers terminology; types of variables; descriptive versus inferential statistics; experiments; observational studies; surveys and sampling; measures of association; probability; binomial distribution; poisson distribution; normal distribution; regression
Material for Network Analysis
Includes several lectures (introductory, work in progress!); Examples; Supplementary resources




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