Political Science 794: Methodology Seminar

Winter 2009
Tuesday 5-8 (7603 HH)
Professor: Walter R. Mebane, Jr.
Office: 7735 Haven Hall (734/763-2220); email wmebane@umich.edu
Office hours: Wed 2-4 or other times by appointment.
Course web page: http://www.umich.edu/~wmebane/ps794.html

Assignment Due Dates
due date description weight
TBA participation 10%
April 28 course paper 90%

Reading Availability

Much of the course will refer to journal articles. One book everyone should buy:

David R. Cox. 2006. Principles of Statistical Inference. Cambridge UP.

Class meeting and reading schedule ($\bullet$ required)

  1. Randomization and Compliance (Jan 20)

  2. Statistical Inference (Jan 27)

    D. R. Cox and D. V. Hinkley. 1974. Theoretical Statistics. Cambridge UP.

  3. Nonparametrics (Feb 3)

    Oi Li and Jeffrey Scott Racine. 2007. Nonparametric Econometrics. Princeton UP.

    Wolfgang Härdle. 1990. Applied Nonparametric Regression. Cambridge UP.

    Adrian Pagan and Aman Ullah. 1999. Nonparametric Econometrics. Cambridge UP.

  4. Identification (Feb 10)

    Charles F. Manski. 1995. Identification in the Social Sciences. Harvard UP.

    Charles F. Manski. 2003. Partial Identification of Probability Distributions. Springer.

    Rosa L. Matzkin. 2007. Nonparametric Identification. In James J. Heckman and Edward E. Leamer, eds., Handbook of Econometrics volume 6B. North-Holland. Pp. 5307-5368.

  5. Discrete Choice Models: Heterogeneities (Feb 17)

    Kenneth E. Train. 2003. Discrete Choice Methods with Simulation. Cambridge UP.

  6. Structural Dynamic Programming Models (Mar 3)

  7. Nonparametric Estimation of Dynamic Games (Mar 10)

  8. BUGS and MCMC (Mar 17)

    Ming-Hui Chen, Qi-Man Shao and Joseph G. Ibrahim. 2000. Monte Carlo Methods in Bayesian Computation. Springer.

    OpenBUGS. http://mathstat.helsinki.fi/openbugs/

    The BUGS Project. http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/bugs/

  9. MCMC and Scaling Models (Mar 24)

  10. quantal response equilibrium models (Mar 31)

  11. bounded influence estimation (Apr 7)

  12. presentations (Apr 14, 21)



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