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
Contemporary computer chips have multiple cores, but R will run your programs on only of them, even if your task could performed in parallel. In this workshop we will see how to identify which tasks can be done in parallel and show how make them go faster by spreading their computation across cores on your machine.
This is the first…
Jonathan Mummolo
Department of Politics and Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
The Bias Is Built In: How Administrative Records Mask Racially Biased Policing
Abstract:
Susan Athey
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Machine Learning and Causal Inference for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects [link is to a series of papers]
This talk will review…