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By Justin Esarey

I’m pleased to announce the schedule of speakers in the International Methods Colloquium series for 2016-2017!

By Justin Esarey

The Spring 2016 edition of The Political Methodologist is now available!

I am also relieved to announce that my term as editor is ending, and the search for a new editorial...

By Justin Esarey

I recently had the opportunity to dip my toe in developing web applications using Shiny through R. I was first introduced to the idea by one of my former graduate students, Jane...

By Nicholas Eubank

Two years ago, I wrote a piece about my experiences over two years testing the code for papers being published in the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, which found...

By Thomas J. Leeper

James E. Monogan, III. 2015. Political Analysis Using R. Springer.

There are a lot of books about R. A partial list on The R Project’s website lists 157 as of May...

By Christopher Gandrud, Laron K. Williams, and Guy D. Whitten

Two recent trends in the social sciences have drastically improved the interpretation of statistical models. The first trend is...

By Justin Esarey

This Friday, 3/25 at 12:00 noon Eastern, the International Methods Colloquium will host a talk by Fred Boehmke (University of Iowa) titled “Proper Specification of Non...

By Justin Esarey

This Friday, 3/18 at 12:00 noon Eastern, the International Methods Colloquium will host a roundtable on peer review associated with the recent special issue on peer review...

By Justin Esarey

This Friday, 2/26 at 12:00 noon Eastern, the International Methods Colloquium will host a talk by Justin Grimmer (Stanford University) titled “The Unreliability of Measures of...

By Alexander Meyer and Leah R. Rosenzweig (Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139. lrosenzw@mit.edu, corresponding author.)*

1 Introduction