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Re: st: Looking for courses in non-linear modelling and imputation techniques
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"Richard J. Stoll" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Looking for courses in non-linear modelling and imputation techniques
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Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:20:37 -0500
On 10/10/2011 3:08 PM, Jacobs, David wrote:
Thanks Nick. You've provided your usual valuable suggestions.
Haven't tried cubic splines much. When I tried them, they didn't work, but that probably was due to my failure(s) or a lack of persistence.
I typically do present plots of splines, but I haven't tried your idea about moving cut points; that may work!
Caveat ... I am a data analyst, not a statistician, econometrician, etc.
But ... you might look at an alternative approach:
Carter, David B., and Curtis S. Signorino. 2010. “Back to the Future:
Modeling Time Dependence in Binary Data.” Political Analysis 18(3): 271-292.
And here is a critique and rejoinder:
Beck, Nathaniel. 2010. “Time is Not A Theoretical Variable.” Political
Analysis 18(3): 293-294.
Carter, David B., and Curtis S. Signorino. 2010. “Reply to ‘Time is Not
A Theoretical Variable’.” Political Analysis 18(3): 295-296.
HTH
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