Dublin Lectures in Quantitative International Relations

Syllabus and Lectures

• Syllabus
• Introduction to Maximum Likelihood
• Common Models in the I.R. Literature
• Comparative Model Testing
• Specification in International Relations

Exercises

• Exercises 1
• Exercises 2
• Exercises 3

Data sets

• Huth, Bennett, and Gelpi (1993)
• codebook
• Saideman (2002)
• codebook
• Pollins (1996)
• codebook

Code

• Ordered probit and logit functions (Jackman)
• Comparative model testing (Clarke)
• Examples

Readings

• Huth, Gelpi, and Bennett. 1993. "The Escalation of Great Power Militarized Disputes."
• Saideman. 2002. "Discrimination in International Relations"."
• Pollins. 1996. "Global Political Order, Economic Change, and Armed Conflict."
• Clarke, 2007. "The Necessity of Being Comparative."
• Clarke, 2005. "The Phantom Menace: Omitted Variable Bias in Econometric Research."
• Clarke, 2003. "Nonparametric Model Discrimination in International Relations."
• Clarke, 2001. "Testing Nonnested Models of International Relations."

R Resources

• The R Project
• The Comprehensive R Archive Network
• Faraway, J. 2002. "Practical Regression and Anova using R."
• Using R for Data Analysis and Graphics: An Introduction by J.H. Maindonald
• Datasets
• R for Beginners by Emmanuel Paradis
• Kickstarting R by Jim Lemon
• R for Categorical Data Analysis by Brett D. Presnell
• simpleR: Using R for Introductory Statistics by John Verzani
• A Brief Guide to R for Beginners in Econometrics by Mahmood Arai
• Contributed Documentation Many of the documents listed above, as well as others, can be found here.