Welcome to the star lab
Merging theory and statistics in the pursuit of political science.
The star lab provides state-of-the-art computing resources for political science scholars engaged in advanced modeling and statistical analysis. Substantive research areas include:
- political economy
- international conflict and international trade
- voting behavior, elections, and political institutions in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America, among others.
A broad range of modeling and statistical research is undertaken in the lab, from specifying models and solving for their equilibria to employing statistical techniques, such as
- Bayesian markov chain monte carlo estimation
- bootstrapping
- nonparametric regression
- estimating strategic models
- parallel processing
On this site, you can find links to data repositories, software developed by members of the Department, current faculty and student projects, a list of our technical courses, a link to the polRis site, help and FAQ files, links to other sites of interest, policies for using the star lab, and contact information.
On this site, you can find links to data repositories, software developed by members of the Department, current faculty and student projects, a list of our technical courses, a link to the polRis site, help and FAQ files, links to other sites of interest, policies for using the star lab, and contact information.