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.
Future Events
News
We are happy to announce exciting updates from QAPS! We recently welcomed Tolgahan Dilgin as the QAPS Statistical Services Manager. For those who remember Will Lowe, Tolgahan will be serving in a very similar role. Stay tuned for updates on our upcoming workshops, and for information on how to utilize our consultancy services.
Previous Events
Canceled due to a conflict with politics department events.
This workshop introduces the university's cluster computers and shows how to run your R code on them. This is helpful when your code takes a long time run or is too large to run efficiently on your own machine.
We will start by running ordinary R code on just a single node of the cluster, effectively using it as an extra computer, We…
Jon Kleinberg
Department of Computer Science, Cornell University
Title: “Inherent Trade-Offs in Algorithmic Fairness”
Abstract:
Recent discussion in the public sphere about classification by algorithms has…
In Song Kim
Department of Political Science, MIT
Co-author: Dmitriy Kunisky (NYU)
Mapping Political Communities: A Statistical Analysis of Lobbying…
- AffiliationDepartment of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- AffiliationNew York University