Text data have a long history in social science and education research. However, these data are notoriously high-dimensional and characterized by many nuances of language that lack plausible statistical models. As a result, analysis of text data typically...
Unobserved interactions between people and groups play a fundamental role in domestic and international politics. Yet, despite their importance, the vast complexity of these unobserved interactions has typically frustrated efforts to quantify them...
In the 1980s a new, extraordinarily productive way of reasoning about algorithms emerged. Though this type of reasoning has come to dominate areas of data science, it has been under-discussed and its impact under-appreciated. For example, it is the...
Factorial experiments are widely used to assess the marginal, joint, and interactive effects of multiple concurrent factors. While a robust literature covers the design and analysis of these experiments, there is less work on how to handle treatment...