Categorical Data Analysis
Slides and Handouts
Materials for a course on Categorical Data Analysis.
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Not everything below is covered in the course itself, but the list below serves as a rough roadmap guide to the course.
- A Review of Descriptive Statistics, OLS and an Introduction to Stata [PDF]
- Data Visualization With Stata [PDF]
- Contingency Tables [PDF]
- Logistic Regression [PDF]
- Some Stuff About Logarithms | More Stuff
- Why Logistic Regression?
- Exploring Logistic Regression
- From Contingency Table To Logistic Regression
- The Logistic Curve Is A Theoretical Construct
- A Diagram Of Some Basic “Intuitions” About The Logistic Curve
- Logistic Regression: The Basics [PDF]
- Visualizing Odds and Risks
- Maximum Likelihood Estimation
- Changes In Predicted Probabilities Are Different At Different Values Of The Independent Variables
- Predicted Probabilities and Margins [PDF] [A Substantive Example [PDF]]
- More Thoughts on Odds and Probabilities [PDF]
- Interactions in Logistic Regression [PDF] (new version)
- Plotting More Complicated Margins
- Logistic Regression Models Are Inherently Interactive [PDF]
- Classification Matrices
- Generalized Linear Models [PDF] [A Gallery of Distributions Used in GLM’s]
- Coefficients in Logistic Regression Models [PDF]
- Complete Separation [PDF]
- Adding Non-Linearity To The Right Hand Side Of An Equation for Categorical Data
- Some Thoughts on Very Large Constants and Coefficients in Non-Linear Models
- Ordinal and Multinomial Logistic Regression [PDF] (new version)
- Count Regression Models [Word]
- Multilevel Models For Categorical Data [PDF]
- Bayesian Categorical Data Analysis [PDF]
- A kinda new, kinda old resource: Thinking Through Bayesian Ideas
- Bayes Theorem Applied To Data Analysis
- Accepting The Null Hypothesis
- Survival Analysis And Event History [PDF]
