November 2011

App Stats: Friedman on "The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Students' Outcomes in Adulthood"

We hope you can join us this Wednesday, November 30, 2011 for the final Applied Statistics Workshop of the semester. John Friedman, Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, will give a presentation entitled "The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Students' Outcomes in Adulthood". A light lunch will be served at 12 pm and the talk will begin at 12.15.

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App Stats: Beltrán-Sánchez on "New Evidence Linking Early and Late-life Mortality in European Cohorts"

We hope you can join us this Wednesday, November 16, 2011 for the Applied Statistics Workshop. Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez, a postdoctoral research fellow at the USC Davis School of Gerontology and at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, will give a talk entitled "New Evidence Linking Early and Late-life Mortality in European Cohorts". A light lunch will be served at 12 pm and the talk will begin...

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Studies that withhold replication data are more likely to have errors

We already knew that scholars who provide replication data get cited more. Now we know that they are also more likely to be right! Paper by Wicherts, Bakker, and Molenaar here. Blog post by Gelman here.

The authors asked for replication data to 49 psychology studies. Amazingly, many of them did not comply even though they were explicitly...

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App Stats: VanderWeele on "Sensitivity Analysis for Contagion Effects in Social Networks"

We hope you can join us this Wednesday, November 9, 2011 for the Applied Statistics Workshop. Tyler VanderWeele, Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, will give a presentation entitled "Sensitivity Analysis for Contagion Effects in Social Networks". A light lunch will be served at 12 pm and the talk will begin at 12.15.

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Privacy, Statistics, and the Debate over the Regulation of Social Science Research

(This is a guest post by Dr. Micah Altman, who is a Senior Research Scientist and Director of Data Archiving and Acquisitions at IQSS.)

The U.S. Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) proposed a set of sweeping changes to the federal regulations that govern research involving human subjects (the “Common Rule”), in the form of an Advance Notice of Proposed Rule Making (ANPRM) and solicited comments from investigators, Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), and any other interested parties by October 26, 2011. The ANPRM...

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