Methods Courses

This serves as the home page for Political Science 582, Quantitative Political Methodology II: Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Fall 2006, Washington University in Saint Louis. This page provides the syllabus, data, and other such stuff.

Administrative Documents

• The Syllabus [.pdf]

Lectures

• Lecture 1: Syllabus, Linear Model Review and Near Equivalence of OLS and MLE
• Lecture 3: Tests, Likelihoods, and MLE Overview
• Lecture 4: Binary Choice
• Lecture 5: Ordered Regression Models
• Lecture 7: Multinomial Choice
• Lecture 8: Count Models
• Lecture 9: Survival/Duration Models
• Lecture 10: Truncation/Censoring

Midterm Examination

• The Midterm

Homework Assignments

• Homework 1
• Homework 2
• Homework 3
• Homework 4
• Homework 5

Code

• oprobit.example.R

Data

• homework2.dta
• homework2b.dta
• homework3.dta
• homework4.dta
• initiatives.dta
• bkt98ajps.dta