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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.







2011-12 QuaSSI Pre-Docs:

Vito D'Orazio (Political Science)
Amanda Hyde (Kinesiology)
Doug Rice (Political Science)
Brett Beattie (Sociology)



Next QuaSSI Event

QuaSSI Workshop
“Text Analysis in Political Science”
Brief presentations and discussions of tools and text-based research from Jon Moody, Marsha Sowell, Vito D'Orazio, Jay Yonamine, Doug Rice, Eitan Tzelgov, James Honaker, and Burt Monroe
(Political Science, Penn State University)
Friday, Apr 6, 12:00 - 4:00 p.m., Pond 302

 



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QuaSSI Seminar, “Statistical Backward Induction.” to be offered by Daehee Bak (Political Science and Quassi, Penn State) on March 22.

QuaSSI Seminar, “An Introduction to Quantile Regression: Modeling Group Disparity by Comparing Entire Distributions.” to be offered by Xiaozhou Wang (Sociology and Quassi, Penn State) on February 23.

QuaSSI Seminar, “Causal Inference with Multiple Treatments.” to be offered by Yeying Zhu (Statistics and Quassi, Penn State) on February 17.

QuaSSI Seminar, “Behavioral Genetics and Political Science.” to be offered by Peter Hatemi (Political Science, Iowa and Sydney) on November 16.

QuaSSI Seminar, “Assessing Foreign Aid Effectiveness: An Application of Propensity Score Matching.” to be offered by Simone Dietrich (Political Science and Quassi, Penn State) on March 31.

QuaSSI Seminar, “Introduction to Bayesian Modeling using WinBUGS.” to be offered by Eitan Tzelgov (Political Science and Quassi, Penn State), on March 15.

QuaSSI Seminar, “Unemployment and Violence in Northern Ireland: A Missing Data Model for Ecological Inference.” to be offered by James Honaker (Department of Political Science Penn State University) on February 8.

QuaSSI Seminar, “Causal Inference with Observational data: Introduction to Matching.” to be offered by Simone Dietrich (Political Science and Quassi, Penn State) on October 23.

QuaSSI Seminar, “Unpacking the Wisdom of Crowds.” to be offered by Scott E. Page (University of Michigan and Santa Fe Institute) on April 17.

QuaSSI Seminar, “Using IRT Models to Measure Dynamic State Public Opinion.” to be offered by Julianna Pacheco (Political Science and QuaSSI, Penn State) on April 10.

QuaSSI Seminar, “Analyzing Socioeconomic Inequality in Well-Being.” to be offered by Narayan Sastry (University of Michigan (Population Studies Center and Survey Research Center)) on March 20.

QuaSSI Seminar, “Hierarchical Bayes Models for Death Penalty Public Opinion from 1950 - 2000.” to be offered by Kenneth Shirley (Columbia University (Statistics)) on February 23.

QuaSSI Workshop, “Introduction to IRT.” to be offered by Julianna Pacheco (Political Science and QuaSSI; Penn State) on October 3.

QuaSSI Workshop, “Introduction to R.” to be offered by Claudia Nau (Sociology, Population Research Institute and QuaSSI; Penn State) on September 15.

QuaSSI Workshop, “Introduction to LaTeX.” to be offered by Anna Pechenkina (Political Science and QuaSSI; Penn State) on September 5.

QuaSSI Symposium, Quantitative Political History on May 20.

QuaSSI Conference, New Faces in Political Methodology on May 3.

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