Sociology 791A - S-Advanced Statistics

In this course we'll cover some basic techniques of analyzing panel, or longitudinal, data. These data consist of observations on the same units (people, countries, etc.) at a minimum of two time points. Analysis techniques include first-difference, fixed effects, and random effects models. We'll start with models for continuous dependent variables, but may introduce binary ones if there's time. We'll assume basic familiarity with multivariate regression at the level of Sociology 712. We'll use Stata, but students are welcome to use other software if they can translate the code from Stata.