Publications by Carlisle Rainey
R Code for Bow Tie Plots
Earlier, I discussed the nice properties of bow tie plots for visualizing and understanding inferences from simple randomized treatment experimental designs. R code to quickly create these plots is available here. You can use the command source(“http://www.carlislerainey.com/Files/bowtie.R”) to load the function directly into �...
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Using Inkscape to Post-edit Labels in R Graphs
I discuss how to use Inkscape to easily shift around labels on graphs produced in R. Continue reading → Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Carlisle Rainey » R. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. C...
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Multiply Imputing an Outcome Variable
Some scholars suggest that multiply imputing an outcome variable is incorrect. I use intuition and simulation to argue that multiply imputing outcomes can drastically improve estimates, even in the case of non-ignorable missingness. Continue reading → Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on...
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Why You Shouldn’t Conclude "No Effect" from Statistically Insignificant Slopes
It is quite common in political science for researchers to run statistical models, find that a coefficient for a variable is not statistically significant, and then claim that the variable “has no effect.” This is equivalent to proposing a research … Continue reading → Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow...
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Coefficient Plots in R
One popular trend in presenting results is the “coefficient plot,” an alternative to the table of regression coefficients. I am seeing this a little more often in political science research and have received a few requests for code, so I … Continue reading → Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link a...
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An Improvement to Coefficient Plots
I recently posted about coefficient plots, discussing my approach and providing some example R code to create the graphs. I had the good fortune of hearing Amanda Driscoll give a talk recently, and she made a small, but really nice … Continue reading → Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment...
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Three Questions about a Matrix of Coefficient Plots
It’s Independence Day in the U.S., so I am taking the day off, but I received the following request for advice and thought I’d pass it along to my readers. I wonder if you could help – I am trying to create 9 different coefficient plots , which represent 9 different GLMs. In each of the 9 […] Related To leave a comment fo...
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Best Books for Social Scientists on Bayesian Analysis
I list and discuss the three books on Bayesian analysis that I recommend to social scientists. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Carlisle Rainey » R. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here ...
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Two Free Sets of Methods Lectures
I provide links to two (free, publicly available) graduate level political methodology classes by Justin Esarey (Rice University) and Gary King (Harvard University). Both classes focus on statistical theory and modeling in R. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Carlisle Rain...
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Controlling Axes of R Plots
(This post is part of the #cumpa series of blog posts and tweets I am writing leading up to SPSA. For more information, see this blog post. To follow along, subscribe to my blog here or follow me on Twitter here. To engage in the conversation, reply to this tweet.) R has powerful graphical capabilities and I use it in all my papers to pl...
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