Intro to American Politics (Fall 2017, Spring 2018) SyllabusMoodle Course (requires UMass log-in) Office Hours: Tues 10-12:30 & by appt Undergraduate Research Engagement Program (Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018) The UREProgram at UMass partners advanced undergraduate political science and legal studies majors with faculty for hands-on, one-on-one research experiences. I have supervised over 20 undergraduate students for four different research projects. This involved training and mentoring them across all aspects of the research experience, including: developing research protocols, gathering and coding data, conducting literature reviews, and holding weekly mentoring meetings.
Teaching Assistant:
Intro to American Politics (Fall 2016)
* Head Teaching Assistant
Intro to American Politics (Spring 2016)
* Discussion Section Leader
Race and Politics (Fall 2015)
* Discussion Section Leader
Women and Politics (Spring 2014)
Controversies in Public Policy (Fall 2013)
* Discussion Section Leader
R Tutorials:
Quick and dirty run-throughs of some survey methods exercises in R.
Survey Methods Tutorials
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Post-Stratification Raking: Questions and Answers about Creating Weights
Last week I received some questions about my methods tutorial on creating post-stratification weights. Problems always arise (at least for me) when trying to apply a bit of code ...
Posted Oct 21, 2017, 4:03 PM by Mia Costa
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Creating Post-Stratification Weights in R
My last post went over how to use pre-specified variable in a dataset to weight survey data. But what if you want to create the weights yourself? If you ...
Posted Oct 21, 2017, 4:03 PM by Mia Costa
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Using Weights in R
In a dataset, survey weights are captured by a variable that indicates how much each respondent should “count.” For example, a respondent who has a 1 for a weight variable ...
Posted Oct 21, 2017, 4:02 PM by Mia Costa
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Count Models in R
To demonstrate how to analyze count dependent variables, we first need to create a dependent variable that is a count. Again use the 2008 CCES survey (http://people.umass.edu ...
Posted Oct 21, 2017, 4:02 PM by Mia Costa
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Multinomial Logit Models in R
For cases when the dependent variable has unordered categories, we use multinomial logit. For example, variable cc309 in the 2008 CESS (http://people.umass.edu/schaffne/cces08.dta) asks respondents ...
Posted Oct 21, 2017, 4:02 PM by Mia Costa
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Ordinal Logit/Probit Models in R
An ordinal logit model is used when you have a dependent variable that takes on more than two categories and those categories are ordered. For example, likert scales, common in ...
Posted Oct 21, 2017, 4:01 PM by Mia Costa
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Logit/Probit Models in R
For this example, we'll use the 2008 Cooperative Congressional Election Study. You can download it here from Brian Schaffner's website (http://people.umass.edu/schaffne/cces08.dta). Download ...
Posted Oct 21, 2017, 4:01 PM by Mia Costa
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