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GDELTtools: R Package to Download, Subset, and Normalize GDELT Data

October 03, 2013

By Justin Esarey

International relations scholars interested in using the huge GDELT database of geocoded, conflict-related events should check out this new R package from Steve Haptonstahl of B...

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Women and the Methods Conference

October 02, 2013

By Justin Esarey

Sara Mitchell has published an interesting piece in The Washington Post about female participation in conferences and gender bias in the citations of published work. It’s of...

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Credibility Toryism: Causal Inference, Research Design, and Evidence

September 30, 2013

By Justin Esarey

In a prior post on my personal blog, I argued that it is misleading to label matching procedures as causal inference procedures (in the Neyman-Rubin sense of the term). My basic...

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Population Density and Voting Patterns

September 29, 2013

By Justin Esarey

A recent analysis produced by Conor Sen has been going ’round the blogosphere, most prominently in the Atlantic Monthly.

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Showing Results from Cox Proportional Hazard Models in R with simPH

September 22, 2013

By Ahra Wu

[Ed. note: This post was contributed by Christopher Gandrud, a postdoctoral researcher at the Hertie School of Governance, and originally featured on his blog.]

Effectively...