Today I was typing to a friend who is working on a Ph.D thesis about my favor issue on elections: campaign contributions. We discussed about analyzing probabilities of a particular group/category grasp more money than the others, in this case, male and female given a district. A preliminary ... [Read more...]

I’d like to explore more the capabilities of my statistical packages to get data online and allocate it in memory instead of download each dataset by hand. After all, I found this task is pretty easy, but got me out of bed for one night trying to find the ... [Read more...]

Sometimes a student may use a self explained chart, instead of a boring table for showing outcomes in a research paper. Yet, graphs are efficient in showing the broad picture of an issue and also for present results. In political science, you can getting into this topic reading Kastellec and ... [Read more...]

In this post I will show one way to display explained variance using a line chart. There is no default plot for displaying the effect of each factor on deviance of the model, so this is a tentative proposal for my dissertation. The following values were obtained using multilevel models ... [Read more...]