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EUI Workshop (2017)

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The next iteration of this will be a two-day workshop at NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim, Norway; 30-31 January 2017). The schedule for the course is as follows:

Monday 30 January - Morning

• Introduction to surveys, experiments, and the survey-experiment nexus
• History of survey experimentation
• Scientific and statistical logic of survey experiments

Monday 30 January - Afternoon

• Translating theories into experimental designs
• Common survey experimental paradigms
• Discussion of applied examples

Tuesday 31 January - Morning

• Generalizability and external validity
• Advanced statistical considerations (mediation, effect heterogeneity, etc.)

Tuesday 31 January - Afternoon

• Practical considerations and handling “broken” experiments
• Workshop and discussion of participants’ designs and experiments
• Conclusion

Materials for participants:

• Slides
  • Day 1
  • Day 2
• Readings
  • Holland, PW. 1986. “Statistics and Causal Inference.” Journal of the American Statistical Association 81(396): 945-960.
  • Leeper, TJ. 2011. “The Oft-Neglected Role of Protocol in the Design and Reporting of Experiments”
  • An example protocol document
  • An example conjoint setup in Qualtrics
• Empirical Example 1: Holbrook and Krosnick
  • Paper, TESS Record, Questionnaire
  • Data: SPSS (.sav), Stata (.dta)
  • Code: Stata, R
• Empirical Example 2: Schuldt et al.
  • Paper, TESS Record, Questionnaire
  • Data: SPSS (.sav), Stata (.dta)
  • Code: Stata, R
• Empirical Example 3: Johnston, Newman, and Velez
  • (Unpublished), TESS Record, Questionnaire
  • Data: SPSS (.sav), Stata (.dta)
  • Code: Stata, R Code
• Other Activities
  • Opening Activity: Data, Stata (.do), R (.R)
  • Power calculations: Stata (.do), R (.R)
  • Effect heterogeneity: Stata (.do), R (.R)
  • Mediation and Manipulation Checks: Stata (.do), R (.R)
  • Balance testing: Stata (.do), R (.R)
  • Survey Weighting: Stata (.do), R (.R)

Note: This version of the workshop includes activities using Stata, but R examples are also provided.