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Lost in Space: Geolocation in Event Data
Sophie J. Lee, Howard Liu, Michael D. Ward
Extracting the "correct" location information from text data, i.e., determining the place of event, has long been a goal for automated text processing. To approximate human-like co…
Inferential Approaches for Network Analyses: AMEN for Latent Factor Models
Shahryar Minhas, Peter D. Hoff, Michael D. Ward
We introduce a Bayesian approach to conduct inferential analyses on dyadic data while accounting for interdependencies between observations through a set of additive and multiplica…
Relax, Tensors Are Here: Dependencies in International Processes
Shahryar Minhas, Peter D. Hoff, Michael D. Ward
Previous models of international conflict have suffered two shortfalls. They tended not to embody dynamic changes, focusing rather on static slices of behavior over time. These mod…
Multiple Imputation Using Gaussian Copulas
Florian M. Hollenbach, Iavor Bojinov, Shahryar Minhas +3
Missing observations are pervasive throughout empirical research, especially in the social sciences. Despite multiple approaches to dealing adequately with missing data, many schol…
Irregular Leadership Changes in 2014: Forecasts using ensemble, split-population duration models
Andreas Beger, Cassy L. Dorff, Michael D. Ward
We forecast Irregular Leadership Changes (ILC)--unexpected leadership changes in contravention of a state's established laws and conventions--for mid-2014 using predictions generat…