Week 4: A first peek at Maximum Likelihood

Schedule of the Week

Date
Time
Item
Place
Material
Mon, Mar 07 16:00–17:30 Office hours (Oliver) Zoom
Tue, Mar 08 13:30–14:30 Office hours (Thomas) Zoom
15:30–17:00 Office hours (Viktoriia) Zoom
23:59 Homework 2 due Github
Wed, Mar 09 8:30–10:00 Lecture A5,6 B244
Thu, Mar 10 10:15–11:45 Lab (Oliver) A5,6 B317
15:30–17:00 Lab (Viktoriia) Zoom

Study Notes

We will finally start with an introduction of the likelihood theory of inference. Please read chapter 4 (only until section 4.3) of King’s UPM book. For a quick peek at MLE, you can refer to Long’s chapter 2.6.

Readings

King, Gary. 1989. Unifying Political Methodology. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Chapter 4.1-4.3. Required
Long, J. Scott. 1997. Regression Models for Categorical and Limited Dependent Variables. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Chapter 2.6. Required
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