Methods Links

Political Methodology and Statistics Resources on the Web

• Political Methodology Homepage
  (Organized Section of the APSA)
• The Political Methodologist
  (Newsletter of the Political Methodology Section)
• Political Analysis
  (Journal of the APSA Political Methodology Section)
• UCLA Statistical Computing Resources
• PowerPoint Presentations of Statistical Topics
  London School of Economics
• The Consortium on Qualitative Research Methods

General Data Sources

• Inter-University Consortium for
  Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
• Time-sharing Experiments for
  the Social Sciences (TESS)
• Harvard-MIT Data Center
• The Virtual Data Center Project

Data Sources for American Politics

• National Election Studies (NES) Homepage
• Judicial Research Initiative (JuRI)
• State Supreme Court
  Data Project
• Law and Courts Datasets
• NOMINATE Scores
  (via Keith Poole's Homepage)
• Policy Agendas Project
• Advocacy and Public Policymaking Project
• General Social Survey
• International Social Survey Programme

Data Sources for International Relations

• Correlates of War Project
• EUGENE: Expected Utility Generation and
  Data Management Program
  , by Scott Bennett and Allan Stam
• Paul Hensel's International Relations Data Site
  (VERY comprehensive)

Data Sources for Comparative Politics

• Polity IV Project
• World Values Survey
• Lijphart Elections Archive
• Eurobarometer
• The New Europe Barometer
• Comparative Study of Electoral Systems
• Afrobarometer
• International Social Survey Programme
• World Bank Data
• Trends in Developing Economies Data
  (via the World Bank)
• Elections Around the World
• Parliamentary Data
• The Post-Internal War Accommodation
  and Repression Data Project
• Economic Growth Data
• The Economic Freedom Index
• CIA World Factbook
• Canadian Election Study
• Africa Research Program
• Clash of Civilizations Data Project

Statistical Software Components Available for Download on the Web

• S-POST: Post-Estimation with Stata, by J. Scott Long and Jeremy Freese
• CLARIFY: Software for Interpreting and Presenting Statistical Results, by M. Tomz, J. Wittenberg, and G. King
• EUGENE: Expected Utility Generation and Data Management Program, by Scott Bennett and Allan Stam
• COUNT: A Program for Estimating Event Count and Duration Regressions, by Gary King
• AMELIA: A Program for Missing Data, by Gary King
• ReLogit: Rare Events Logistic Regression, by Gary King
• CDSIMEQ: A Program to Implement Two-Stage Probit Least Squares, by Omar M.G. Keshk
• Stata Software Components
  (includes dozens of Stata components)
• EUGENE: Expected Utility Generation and Data Management Program, by Scott Bennett and Allan Stam

Homepages of Statistical Software Packages

• Stata
• SPSS
• LIMDEP / NLOGIT
• SAS
• S-Plus
• R
• LISREL
• AMOS
• HLM (Hierarchical Linear and Nonlinear Modeling)
• RATS
• WinBUGS

Topics in Quantitative Methods

Correlation

• Inferential Statistics at Vassar
• John Wasson's Page
• Correlational Analysis at Newcastle

Regression

• G. David Garson's Statnotes
• Gerard E. Dallal's Page
• Statistics at Yale
• Alan O. Sykes's Lecture

Count models

• UCLA Statistical Consulting Group
• Indiana Stat/Math Center
• Nathaniel Beck's Lecture

Event history

• G. David Garson's Statnotes
• Aaron Gullickson's Page
• Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier

Time series

• G. David Garson's Statnotes
• NIST Handbook

Spatial modeling

• Dawn Parker's Page
• Robert J. Franzese, Jr. and Jude C. Hays

Matching

• Herbert L. Smith's Lecture
• UNC Workshop

Multi-level modeling

• UCLA Stat Computing Portal
• G. David Garson's Statnotes

Computation modeling

• Leigh Tesfatsion's Page
• G. David Garson's Statnotes

Network analysis

• Robert Hanneman's Page
• G. David Garson's Statnotes

Bayesian analysis

• Simon Jackman's Page
• Ray Hilborn's Page

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