Required

King, Gary. 1989. Unifying Political Methodology: The Likelihood Theory of Statistical Inference Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
A variety of papers will be assigned as well, available on the web.

Recommended

It is also helpful to have access to a book on R/S programming such as

Fox, John. 2002. An R and S-Plus Companion to Applied Regression. Sage Publications.
Imai, Kosuke, Gary King, and Olivia Lau. 2011. Zelig: Everyone's Statistical Software, Manuscript.
Ripley, Brian D. and Venables, William N. 2002. Modern Applied Statistics with S, Springer.

Suggested

Pawitan, Yudi. 2001. In All Likelihood: Statistical Modelling and Inference Using Likelihood. Oxford University Press
Barnett, Vic. 1982. Comparative Statistical Inference. 2nd edition. Wiley.
Chiang, Alpha. 1984. Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics. McGraw-Hill.
DeGroot, Morris H. 1986. Probability and Statistics. Addison-Wesley. or Mendenhall, William and Robert J. Beaver.\ 1994. Mathematical Statistics with Applications. Duxbury.
Edwards, A.W.F. 1984. Likelihood. Cambridge University Press.
Gelman, Andrew et al. 2004. Bayesian Data Analysis. Chapman and Hall.
Gill, Jeff. 2008. Bayesian Methods: A Social and Behavioral Sciences Approach, 2nd ed, Chapman and Hall.
Harvey, Andrew C. 1990. The Econometric Analysis of Time Series. MIT Press.
Joreskog, Karl G. and Dag Sorbom, edited by Jay Magidson. 1979. Advances in Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Models. University Press of America.
King, Gary. 1997. A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem: Reconstructing Individual Behavior from Aggregate Data. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Kleppner, Daniel and Norman Ramsey. Quick Calculus. Wiley.
Lee J. Bain and Max Engelhardt. 1987. Introduction to Probability and Mathematical Statistics. Duxbury.
McCullagh, Peter and J. A. Nelder. 1993. Generalized Linear Models Chapman-Hall.
Mills, Terence C. 1990. Time Series Techniques for Economists. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Norman J. Johnson and Samuel Kotz. Distributions in Statistics, four volumes. John Wiley and Sons.
Rice, John A. 1995. Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis, 2nd Ed. Belmont, CA: Duxbury Press.
Rubinsten, Reuven Y. 1981. Simulation and the Monte Carlo Method, New York: John Wiley.
Schafer, Joseph L. 1997. Analysis of Incomplete Multivariate Data. New York: Chapman-Hall.
Tanner, Martin A. 1996. Tools for statistical inference: observed data and data augmentation methods, 3rd edition. New York: Springer.

This is the syllabus for Gov2001, Advanced Quantitative Political Methodology. All course materials are at j.mp/G2001.

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