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Software for Social Network Analysis: Pajek and Friends
Our project on social (citation and collaboration) networks in British and German political science involves networks with hundreds and thousands of nodes (scientists and articles). At the moment, our...
View ArticleMLwiN 2.10: free for British Academics
MLwiN is one of the granddaddies of multi-level modelling software (the other being HLM). Essentially, it is a 1990s-ish looking and sometimes quirky GUI wrapped around an old DOS program (MLn). The...
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Running MLwiN from within Stata
In the past, I did a lot of multi-level modelling with MLwiN 2.02, which I quickly learned to loath. Back in the late 1990s, MLwiN was perhaps the first ML software that had a somewhat intuitive...
View ArticleEasy Google geocoding in Stata
For our piece on distance effects in English elections we geocoded the addresses of hundreds of candidates. For the un-initiated: Geocoding is the fine art of converting addresses into geographical...
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Stata Software for Assessing Survey Bias
BinaryApe / Foter / CC BY In a recent paper, we derive various multinomial measures of bias in public opinion surveys (e.g. pre-election polls). Put differently, with our methodology, you may...
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Can You Do a Telephone Survey in the Cloud?
One of my very able PhD students is working on a better instrument for measuring the interaction of national and European identities. Thanks to the generosity of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, we can now...
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New (Free!) Software for Assessing Survey Bias
Worried about survey bias? We have updated our add-on (or ado) surveybias, which calculates our multinomial generalisation of the old Martin, Traugott, and Kennedy (2005) measure for survey bias. If...
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