In class this week, I mentioned that among researchers there is an implicit prestige hierarchy of analytical techniques, in this order: Random assignment of treatment Regression discontinuity Difference-in-difference (with a change in treatment that is clearly exogenous) Fixed effects panel models and instrumental variables Matching OLS, HLM, logistic regression, etc.(any version of the general...
Stephen Porter
Stephen Porter is a Professor in the College of Education at North Carolina State University, where he teaches graduate courses in statistics, causal inference, and workflow of data analysis. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Rochester, with a concentration in econometrics.
