These are the lecture slides for Brenton Kenkel's offering of PSCI 2301 at Vanderbilt University. All slides are written in Quarto using my fork of the quarto-revealjs-clean template.
| Title | Date | PDF export | Quarto source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction to the course | 2025-01-06 | QMD | |
| Refresher on R essentials | 2025-01-08 | QMD | |
| Asking causal questions | 2025-01-13 | QMD | |
| The building blocks of statistics | 2025-01-15 | QMD | |
| The potential outcomes model | 2025-01-22 | QMD | |
| Randomized experiments | 2025-01-27 | QMD | |
| The turnout experiment | 2025-01-29 | QMD | |
| Statistical inference in theory | 2025-02-03 | QMD | |
| Statistical inference in practice | 2025-02-05 | QMD | |
| Matching | 2025-02-11 | QMD | |
| Matching in practice | 2025-02-17 | QMD | |
| Regression for causal inference | 2025-02-24 | QMD | |
| Regression with interaction terms | 2025-02-26 | QMD | |
| Instrumental variables in theory | 2025-03-03 | QMD | |
| Instrumental variables in practice | 2025-03-05 | QMD | |
| Regression discontinuity designs | 2025-03-17 | QMD | |
| RDD in practice | 2025-03-19 | QMD | |
| Differences in differences | 2025-03-31 | QMD | |
| Implementing differences in differences | 2025-04-07 | QMD | |
| Synthetic control: A crash course | 2025-04-09 | QMD |