Sampling from a Multinomial Distribution in Stata
Sometimes, a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do. Which, in my case, might be a little simulation of a random process involving an unordered categorical variable. In R, sampling from a multinomial...
View ArticleAre Germans More Afraid of Neo-Nazis Than of Islamists?
Who is afraid of whom? The liberal German weekly Zeit has commissioned a YouGov poll which demonstrates that Germans are more afraid of right-wing terrorists than of Islamist terrorists. The question...
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Stata Software for Assessing Survey Bias
BinaryApe / Foter / CC BY In a recent paper, we derive various multinomial measures of bias in public opinion surveys (e.g. pre-election polls). Put differently, with our methodology, you may...
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Replication Data for “A New Multinomial Accuracy Measure for Polling Bias”
Replication data for our forthcoming Political Analysis paper on our new, multinomial accuracy measure for bias in opinion surveys (e.g. pre-election polls) has just gone online at the PA dataverse. So...
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Just How Biased is Your Survey? Ask our Stata Add-On (Update)
Measuring Survey Bias In our recent Political Analysis paper (ungated authors’ version), Jocelyn Evans and I show how Martin, Traugott, and Kennedy’s two-party measure of survey accuracy can be...
View ArticlePolling accuracy: a Q&A with Kai Arzheimer and Joceyln Evans | OUPblog
The very useful OUP blog has a Q&A session on polling accuracy with Jocelyn Evans and me: Polling accuracy: a Q&A with Kai Arzheimer and Joceyln Evans. Moreover, Oxford University Press has...
View ArticleSurveybias 1.0 on SSC
The new version of our Stata module surveybias has now appeared on SSC. From within Stata, simply run ssc install surveybias, all to install it (no surprise here). For the time being, the article on...
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