Welcome to QAPS
The Program for Quantitative and Analytical Political Science (QAPS) was established in 2009 to support theoretical and quantitative research in political science and its dissemination. We support graduate students through QAPS fellowships, host post-doctoral research fellows, offer statistical and formal theory consulting, hold quantitative skills workshops, throw conferences, and organize the Quantitative Social Science colloquium.
News
After four and a half years at QAPS, Will Lowe is leaving the university to become Senior Research Scientist at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. This position at QAPS will not be refilled, so until further notice this means that:
There will be no more QAPS computational skills…Reminder: This morning's QAPS workshop (April 3, 2019) has been canceled.
Previous Events
Erin Hartman
Department of Political Science, University of California Los Angeles
Co-author: Naoki Egami (Princeton and Harvard)
- AffiliationDepartment of Political Science, University of California Los Angeles
Simine Vazire
Department of Psychology, University of California at Davis
The Credibility Revolution in Psychology
A fundamental part of the scientific enterprise is for each field to engage in critical self-examination to detect…
This workshop focuses on how to load, clean, and restructure your data into a form suitable for summarizing in graphs and tables, and ready for your final analyses. We will use functions from the 'tidyverse' R packages to realize the key preparation steps in any empirical data analysis: data import, variable cleaning and construction, wide-to…