Browsing by Author "King, Gary"
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Aggregation Among Binary, Count, and Duration Models: Estimating the Same Quantities from Different Levels of Data
Alt, James E.; King, Gary; Signorino, Curtis (Oxford University Press, 2001)Binary, count, and duration data all code discrete events occurring at points in time. Although a single data generation process can produce all of these three data types, the statistical literature is not very helpful in ... -
Analyzing Second Stage Ecological Regressions: Comment on Herron and Shotts
Adolph, Christopher; King, Gary (Oxford University Press, 2003) -
Armed Conflict as a Public Health Problem
Murray, Christopher J. L.; King, Gary; Lopez, Alan D.; Tomijima, Niels; Krug, Etienne (British Medical Association, 2002)Armed conflict between warring states and groups within states have been major causes of ill health and mortality for most of human history. Conflict obviously causes deaths and injuries on the battlefield, but also health ... -
An Automated Information Extraction Tool for International Conflict Data with Performance as Good as Human Coders: A Rare Events Evaluation Design
King, Gary; Lowe, Will (Cambridge University Press, 2003) -
Automating Open Science for Big Data
Crosas, Merce; King, Gary; Honaker, James Allen; Sweeney, Latanya (SAGE Publications, 2015)The vast majority of social science research presently uses small (MB or GB scale) data sets. These fixed scale sets are commonly downloaded to the researcher's computer where the analysis is performed locally, and are ... -
Avoiding Randomization Failure in Program Evaluation, with Application to the Medicare Health Support Program
King, Gary; Nielsen, Richard Alexander; Coberly, Carter; Pope, James E.; Wells, Aaron (Mary Ann Liebert, 2011)We highlight common problems in the application of random treatment assignment in large-scale program evaluation. Random assignment is the defining feature of modern experimental design, yet errors in design, implementation, ... -
The Balance‐Sample Size Frontier in Matching Methods for Causal Inference
King, Gary; Lucas, Christopher Douglas; Nielsen, Richard (Wiley, 2016-11-09)We propose a simplified approach to matching for causal inference that simultaneously optimizes both balance (between the treated and control groups) and matched sample size. This procedure resolves two widespread tensions ... -
Binomial-Beta Hierarchical Models for Ecological Inference
King, Gary; Rosen, Ori; Tanner, Martin (SAGE Publications, 1999)he authors develop binomial-beta hierarchical models for ecological inference using insights from the literature on hierarchical models based on Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms and King’s ecological inference model. ... -
Building An Infrastructure for Empirical Research in the Law
Epstein, Lee; King, Gary (Case Western Reserve University, 2003) -
Buying Inertia: Preempting Social Disorder With Selective Welfare Provision in Urban China
Pan, Jennifer (2015-03-30)A considerable number of welfare programs and social policies are adopted by authoritarian regimes, but we know relatively little about what shapes the pattern of redistribution in the absence of electoral competition. ... -
Calculating Standard Errors of Predicted Values Based on Nonlinear Functional Forms
King, Gary (The Society for Political Methodology, 1991)Whenever we report predicted values, we should also report some measure of the uncertainty of these estimates. In the linear case, this is relatively simple, and the answer well-known, but with nonlinear models the answer ... -
The Candidate Supply: How the Costs and Benefits of Running for Office Shape the Democratic Process
Hall, Andrew (2015-04-30)Dominant theories of U.S. elections focus on how candidates fluidly change positions based on the demands of voters. I argue instead that candidates' positions are more rigid. As a result, the supply of candidates, and ... -
cem: Coarsened Exact Matching in Stata
Blackwell, Matthew; Iacus, Stefano; King, Gary; Porro, Giuseppe (StataCorp, 2010)This paper introduces a Stata implementation of Coarsened Exact Matching (CEM), a new method for improving the estimation of causal effects by reducing imbalance in co-variates between treated and control groups. CEM is ... -
CEM: Software for Coarsened Exact Matching
Iacus, Stefano; King, Gary; Porro, Giuseppe (American Statistical Association, 2009)This program is designed to improve causal inference via a method of matching that is widely applicable in observational data and easy to understand and use (if you understand how to draw a histogram, you will understand ... -
The Changing Evidence Base of Social Science Research
King, Gary (Routedge, 2009) -
Clarify: Software for Interpretng and Presenting Statistical Results
Tomz, Michael; Whittenberg, Jason; King, Gary (American Statistical Association, 2003) -
Comparing Incomparable Survey Responses: Evaluating and Selecting Anchoring Vignettes
King, Gary; Wand, Jonathan (Oxford University Press, 2007)When respondents use the ordinal response categories of standard survey questions in different ways, the validity of analyses based on the resulting data can be biased. Anchoring vignettes is a survey design technique, ... -
Computational Social Science
Lazer, David M.; Pentland, Alex; Adamic, Lada; Aral, Sinan; Barabási, Albert-László; Brewer, Devon; Christakis, Nicholas Alexander; Contractor, Noshir; Fowler, James; Gutmann, Myron; Jebara, Tony; King, Gary; Macy, Michael; Roy, Deb; Van Alstyne, Marshall (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2009)A field is emerging that leverages the capacity to collect and analyze data at a scale that may reveal patterns of individual and group behaviors. -
A Consensus on Second Stage Analyses in Ecological Inference Models
Adolph, Christopher; King, Gary; Herron, Michael C.; Shotts, Kenneth W. (Oxford University Press, 2003) -
Constituency Service and Incumbency Advantage
King, Gary (Cambridge University Press, 1991)Numerous scholars have documented a dramatic increase in incumbency advantage in US congressional elections and also state legislative elections over the past four decades. For example, Gelman and King show that incumbents ...