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Welcome to the homepage of Penn State's Quantitative Social Science Initiative (QuaSSI). QuaSSI seeks to promote the development of an interdisciplinary community of Penn State faculty, students, and other researchers interested in the improvement and application of quantitative techniques and tools in social science research and training. All QuaSSI events are open to any interested members of the Penn State community.







Call for Applications: QuaSSI Graduate Assistants: 2008-09



Click here for detailed information. The deadline is MARCH 19.


Next QuaSSI Event

QuaSSI Workshop
“Circular Modeling of Human Behavior: Directional statistics and cosine curve modeling applied to interpersonal functioning.”
Aidan Wright
Psychology and QuaSSI, Penn State University,
Apr. 9, 12:10 - 1:30 p.m., Pond 302

 



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QuaSSI Seminar, “Circular Modeling of Human Behavior: Directional statistics and cosine curve modeling applied to interpersonal functioning.” to be offered by Aidan Wright (Psychology and QuaSSI; Penn State) on April 9.

QuaSSI Seminar, “GIS software and spatial statistics tools: Do they measure up? Comparing Ripley's K-function analysis in ArcMap, CrimeState, and SpatStat (R)” to be offered by Gregory Luna (Anthropology and QuaSSI; Penn State) on March 19.

Call for applications, QuaSSI Graduate Assistantships. Applications due March 19.

QuaSSI Seminar, “An Introduction to Causal Inference Using Propensity Score Matching” to be offered by Satvika Chalasani (Sociology, Demography, and QuaSSI; Penn State) on January 28.

QuaSSI Seminar, “Bayesian Inference for Causal Effects from 2×2 and 2×2xK Tables in the Presence of Unmeasured Confounding” to be offered by Kevin Quinn (Department of Government, Harvard) on January 18.

QuaSSI Seminar, “The Puzzling Nature of Success in Cultural Markets” to be offered by Matthew Salganik (Department of Sociology, Princeton) on October 15.

QuaSSI Seminar, “When Lightning Strikes Twice: A New Model for Repeated Events” to be offered by Suzanna De Boef (Department of Political Science, Penn State) on September 26.

QuaSSI Workshop, “Introduction to Functional MRI for Social Scientists” to be offered by Melissa Robinson (Department of Neuroscience and QuaSSI, Penn State) on September 10.

24th Annual Summer Meeting, Society for Political Methodlogy, July 18-21

QuaSSI Pre-Doctoral Fellows, 2007-08: Satvika Chalasani, Gregory Luna, Melissa Robinson, and Aidan Wright

Call for applications, QuaSSI Graduate Assistantships. Applications due April 30.

Special QuaSSI Event on “Causal Models and Statistical Data” to be offered by Clark Glymour and Richard Scheines (Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University) on March 23.

QuaSSI Seminar on “Exponential Random Graph Models for Social Networks” to be offered by David Hunter (Statistics) on February 21.

QuaSSI Seminar on “Quantile Regression” to be offered by Sung Jae Jun (Economics) on December 11.

The QuaSSI Seminar on “Learning in Fantasy Sports League Data” by Brian Smith (Information Sciences and Education), originally scheduled for December 4 has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for the Spring 2007 semester.

QuaSSI Seminar on “Statistical Methods for Data Privacy, Confidentiality and Disclosure Limitation” to be offered by Sesa Slavkovic (Statistics) on November 27.

QuaSSI Workshop on “Data-Mining the Web with Perl” to be offered by QuaSSI Director Burt Monroe on November 17.

QuaSSI Seminar on “Analysis of Complex Time-Space Processes” to be offered by Donna Peuquet (Geography) on November 13.

QuaSSI Workshop on “The New Political Methodology” to be offered by Chris Achen (Princeton) on November 2.

QuaSSI Seminar on “Common Trend Models” (Jee-Kwang Park) to be held on October 30.

QuaSSI Seminar on “Statistical Power Analysis” (Kevin Murphy) to be held on October 23.

QuaSSI Seminar on “Latent Class Analysis” (Stephanie Lanza) to be held on October 16.

New QuaSSI website launched.

Burt Monroe named QuaSSI Director.

SSSP is now QuaSSI!
burtmonroe@psu.edu