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Center for Statistical Training & Consulting Workshop: Intermediate Topics in Regression
(Conferences / Seminars / Lectures) This course will consider topics in regression analysis aimed at people wanting to use regression for empirical work in a fairly sophisticated way. The focus is on regression with cross-sectional data. Topics include a brief review of the assumptions used to conclude that ordinary least squares (OLS) has desirable statistical properties; how one confronts problems of multicollinearity; estimating and interpreting models with flexible functional forms (such as interaction terms); selection of regressors and proxy variables; using and interpreting linear regression with discrete outcomes; making inference robust to heteroskedasticity and cluster correlation; the pros and cons of weighted least squares versus OLS; linear regression and the estimation of average treatment effects.
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