Outline

  1. An overview of the course and our tools. The slides are here.
  2. Talk about causality versus description. The notes on questions are here. The slides on causal inference are here. (Didn’t get to this; might cover later.)
  3. Show and example of R Projects (i.e., the .Rproj file) and loading data. (Didn’t get to this; might cover later.)
  4. Talk about data frames in R. The slides are here (Didn’t get to this; might cover later.)

Resourcs

Davis and Muenier (2011)

You can find an example project here. You can find the latent-dissent project here.

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